What Happens if the Union is Elected?

The Tech Guild would represent all employees in the unit, whether they voted for the union or not.  

Managers would need to learn, and operate under, the rules for managing in a union environment.

The Post and the Tech Guild would have to engage in collective bargaining negotiations over wages, hours and working conditions for employees in the unit. The bargaining process for first contracts often takes well over one year. See The Collective Bargaining Process.

While negotiations are ongoing, and until a first contract is reached, the NLRB prevents employers from making unilateral changes (without bargaining) in working conditions for unit employees, like wages, hours, benefits and policies, with few exceptions, and requires maintaining the “status quo” during negotiations.