In this monthly roundup on “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University will recap all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more voters tallied in the previous month, in this case for March 2025. See the February 2025 roundup here.
It’s the center’s belief that if the labor movement in the United States is to be rebuilt, it is going to be through experimentation with new strategies and tactics that push against the constraints of labor law and through large-unit organizing in the hundreds and thousands. The latter concern will be at issue in this series.
Given the outsize importance of large-unit labor elections in the overall composition of the labor movement, there’s a good argument to be made that the overall trajectory of organized labor can be gleaned from an analysis of such elections.
The homepage of JSW Steel USA’s website features wind turbines and the tagline “Sustainable steel for a stronger tomorrow.” They also brag that they have “the most energy-efficient and lowest carbon-emitting method of steelmaking” and are “sowing seeds for a greener future.” For their greening efforts, they’ve received $43.5 million from the Department of Energy to improve their Mingo Junction, Ohio, facility, which produces steel slabs used in offshore wind construction.
This same facility recently unionized after a 117–105 victory in its NLRB election tallied on March 7, leading to 248 new members for the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied & Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW). Despite the green, ethical image portrayed on its website, the…
Auteur: Benjamin Y. Fong
