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Successorship

Learn about an employer’s duty to bargain after purchasing, taking over, or reviving a unionized employer’s business.

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Successorship involves one employer taking over from another, such as through a purchase or a merger. A succeeding employer sometimes has to bargain with the union representing the predecessor’s employees.

I. Who’s a Successor Employer?

Not all succeeding employers must bargain, but in this lesson, we’ll use the term successor to refer to a succeeding employer with a bargaining duty.

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Lessons

1. Welcome
  • Welcome to Labor Law
2. Labor Law Foundations
3. Union Representation and Recognition
4. Collective Bargaining
5. Economic Weapons
  • Strikes
  • Strike-Related ULPs
  • Lockouts
  • Secondary Activity I
  • Secondary Activity II
  • Consumer Picketing and Handbilling
6. Representation and Contract Administration
  • The Duty of Fair Representation
  • Union-Security Agreements
  • Grievance Arbitration and Contract Enforcement I
  • Grievance Arbitration and Contract Enforcement II
7. Successorship, Preemption, and Antitrust
  • Successorship
  • Preemption
  • Antitrust