Collective Bargaining Agreements negotiated by bargaining units and ratified by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. The dataset includes columns for Agreement Period, Bargaining Unit Full Name, Bargaining Unit, Link, and Locals. It was last updated on 2026-05-19 and is hosted by datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in agreement durations using the Agreement Period column.
- Map organizational structures of public-sector unions using the Bargaining Unit and Locals columns.
- Link to full contract documents for text analysis using the Link column alongside Bargaining Unit Full Name.
Strengths
- Provides direct links to full contract documents via the Link column.
- Includes structured identifiers for bargaining units and their locals.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov
- Collection Method
- Negotiated by bargaining units and ratified by the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-19 14:17:27; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Cook County, Illinois, USA