Architect SHoP Drops Union Bid, But Sector Organizing Continues

Workers in a a drafting room for a U.S. government program in 1936. Photo: Library of Congress, FSA/OWI Collection

Nascent union Architectural Workers United said Feb. 3 it is withdrawing a petition to organize New York City-based architecture firm SHoP on the eve of an historic employee vote in a highly publicized campaign to form the first union at a private US architectural firm since the 1940s.

But the union's design sector organizing isn't over.

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