1995 Bargaining Activity — 1994-11-29

The 1995 bargaining calendar will be heavy, with 42 percent of the workers under major agreements (those covering 1,000 or more workers) in private industry and state and local government having contracts scheduled to expire or reopen during the year, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This is the largest proportion in the 11 years that BLS has compiled this information for both private industry and state and local government, and follows a record light year, when scheduled bargaining covered just 26 percent of the workers. About 3.4 million workers are under agreements up for renegotiation. (See tables 1 and 2.) Both private industry and state and local government have full bargaining schedules in 1995. In private industry, 35 percent of the 5.4 million workers under major agreements are slated for contract talks.