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A US union is a private association or club with internal rules. It is granted the legal right to attempt to "organize" a subset of workers at an employer, by asking them to join voluntarily. US law prohibits some workers from being a union member, so those NOT excluded at one workplace are called the bargaining unit. If 1/3 of the unit asks for a secret ballot election, the federal government oversees it after a campaign between the union and the employer.

If 50% +1 of those who VOTE on ballot day vote for Union X, then everyone in the bargaining unit is in the union, and bargaining a contract begins.

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