For example, what’s preventing me and a coworker from just calling ourself “The Zach and Josh union,” and slowly adding more members as we go?
Similarly, in the case of existing unions like the United Auto workers Union, why can’t 3-4 employees at a non-union company choose to be represented by the UAW without needing 50% of the company to join also?
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Because that’s not how the legal structures of unions are set up. If you work at a company that is non-union and you tried to just personally join a union, you would be forcing your non union company to now negotiate with a union, which costs money and time and lawyers.
So, to prevent it being a major pain in the ass for companies everytime 2 or 3 employees want to start/join a union, the companies have successfully negotiated with the Department of Labor (which oversees union creation and negotiation) that workers can vote to join the union, but they have to do it in one big one and done vote, one event, not 20 different votes that the company’s lawyers have to deal with individually.
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