No matter the expected weather in any given month, union contract negotiations can put workers and management in the hot seat.
Bloomberg Law’s labor databases have identified 450 collective bargaining agreements, each covering 200 or more workers, that are set to expire next year. Using that list, I’ve checked the calendar to see where there might be major friction throughout 2021.
January: Teamsters. January is typically when the terms of union contracts begin, not end, so there’s not much action scheduled for 2021’s opening month: 24 major expirations, involving some 12,600 workers. The two largest negotiations on the January calendar ...