Workplaces change quickly
Competitive pressures, ownership changes, restructuring, technology and changing business conditions can rapidly reshape private-sector workplaces.
Private Sector
Built for the realities of private-sector unions.
Coordinate representation across employers, plants, stores, service locations, and multi-site bargaining units.
Private-sector unions operate in fast-moving environments where employers, workplaces, technology, staffing and competitive pressures can change quickly. Union Software gives officers, staff, organizers and stewards the structure they need to represent members consistently while keeping the union connected to what is happening across the workplace.
The private sector is not one workplace
A manufacturing plant does not operate like a retail chain. A warehouse workforce has different structures and representation requirements than an airline. A food-processing facility faces different operational realities than a telecommunications company.
Union Software is designed around those differences.
Manufacturing & Industrial Workers
Coordinate members, stewards, grievances and bargaining across plants, departments, production lines, classifications and shifts.
Retail & Service Workers
Support members across stores, branches, customer-service environments and geographically distributed workplaces.
Hospitality Workers
Represent employees across hotels, food service, convention facilities and other hospitality environments operating around the clock.
Transportation & Logistics Workers
Connect representation across terminals, fleets, routes, facilities and mobile workforces.
Warehousing & Distribution Workers
Manage fast-moving workplaces built around shifts, departments, distribution centres and operational performance.
Food Processing Workers
Support members working in production, packaging, sanitation, maintenance, warehousing and other specialized plant operations.
Automotive Workers
Coordinate representation across assembly, parts, component manufacturing, service and related automotive workplaces.
Aviation & Airport Workers
Represent employees across airports, airlines, ground operations, maintenance and other highly regulated transportation environments.
Telecommunications Workers
Support technical, field, customer-service and professional employees across rapidly changing communications workplaces.
Energy & Industrial Services Workers
Represent skilled and operational workforces across energy production, industrial facilities and related service environments.
Security & Protective Services Workers
Coordinate representation across client sites, contracts, schedules and geographically distributed security workplaces.
Administrative & Professional Employees
Represent professional, technical, administrative and knowledge-based employees through organizational and technological change.
Common Private-Sector Challenges
Members are often distributed
A bargaining unit may span multiple stores, facilities, terminals, branches, plants or geographic regions.
Representation must keep pace with operations
Scheduling, overtime, production, attendance, discipline, classification and workplace change can create significant representation activity.
Organizing remains central
Private-sector unions need reliable infrastructure not only to service existing members, but also to grow membership and build workplace leadership.
Collective agreements need to live in the operation
Agreement language becomes most useful when representatives can connect it to members, grievances, workplaces and recurring issues.
Bargaining depends on workplace intelligence
Grievances, member feedback, employer changes and workplace trends can provide important insight when establishing bargaining priorities.
One Connected Private-Sector Operating Environment
People
Maintain accurate member records and organize members by employer, worksite, classification, unit, shift and representation structure.
Grievances & Cases
Manage grievances, complaints, investigations and other member cases from intake through resolution.
Organizing
Manage organizing campaigns, worker outreach, workplace leadership, support and campaign activity.
Bargaining
Connect proposals, bargaining activity, workplace issues and representation history.
Communications
Reach members across email, SMS and voice while targeting the appropriate workplaces, classifications and groups.
Agreements
Keep collective agreement language connected to the operational work of the union.
Finance & Dues
Manage dues, employer remittances, payments and union financial activity.
Advanced Reports
Turn membership, grievance, organizing, bargaining and financial data into usable operational and leadership reporting.