Articles and guides for union officers, stewards and members, on contracts, grievances, and AI in union work.
Every stage from the informal conversation to arbitration: who is in the room, what gets decided, the deadlines in real agreements, how long arbitration takes, and the five-step method stewards use. For Canada and the United States, with a printable grievance checklist and deadline tracker.
Most grievances that fail never get argued: they miss the filing window. Six steps from the day it happens to the written grievance, real deadlines from four agreements, and what to do if you miss one.
The first flight attendant union was founded August 22, 1945. Its first contract created seniority bidding and a grievance procedure. Eighty years of rules, and how each one ended as contract text.
Grounded legal AI tools still hallucinated 17–33% of the time in Stanford’s study; open-ended GPT-4 hit 43%. What that means for a collective agreement chatbot, which risks are real, and what a union should demand from any vendor.
The lookup work is automatable. The judgment work (grievances, arbitrations, organizing) isn’t. What unions are winning in 2026 contracts, and a six-question checklist for any AI tool.
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