INSIGHTS

Thinking from across the Union Global ecosystem

Union Global publishes institutional research and position papers through each of its operating divisions. The work is grounded in the day-to-day reality of union offices, labour markets, and organized investment — not in abstractions about what organized labour could be.

Each paper is authored by the division with operational standing in the subject. Together, they reflect a single thesis: that organized labour needs purpose-built infrastructure — to run its offices, coordinate its workforce, and deploy its capital — and that building that infrastructure is the defining institutional opportunity of this moment.

UNION GLOBAL

Union Global Investment Thesis Series

When 330,000 Commuters Stop Moving: What a New York Transit Strike Reveals About the Global Future of Organized Labour

How a single transit strike reveals four fundamentally different global models for organized labour — and why the future may depend less on disruption and more on scalable coordination infrastructure

Union Global · 12-minute read

UNION SOFTWARE

Union Software Whitepaper Series

Building the Digital Operating System for Union Governance

A principled framework for what purpose-built union administrative infrastructure must contain, how it must be structured, and what makes it fundamentally different from generic software adapted for union use

Union Software · 29-minute read

Union Software Whitepaper Series

Union Case Management: The Operational Complexity of Grievance Management

A detailed operational analysis of the file types, deadline architecture, stage documentation requirements, pattern detection demands, arbitration preparation obligations, and remedy tracking failures that define grievance management in active union offices

Union Software · 34-minute read

UNION WORK FORCE

Union Work Force Whitepaper Series

Organizing Work: The Case for a Union-First Workforce Coordinator

Why organized labour needs a coordinator whose mandate is not to find workers for employers, but to ensure that work — across industries, across jurisdictions, across the full breadth of the labour market — goes union

Union Work Force · 22-minute read

Union Work Force Whitepaper Series

Coordinating Labour at Scale in Unionized and Underorganized Industries

How purpose-built workforce coordination keeps work union, expands organized labour into underorganized sectors, and builds the infrastructure for labour at scale

Union Work Force · 21-minute read