Your Union’s Best Friend

labor.dog is an all-in-one management platform for local unions. It runs your roster and org chart, compliant elections and votes, SMS and email to members, payroll entry, grievance tracking, meeting notes, and secure document storage — tied together by an AI assistant trained on your own contract and policies.

Access is invite only and limited to verified local unions. There are no public sign-ups. We built it for fire and police locals first, where the stakes are highest, but every labor local is welcome by invitation.

No. labor.dog is an independent platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with any national or international union or labor organization. It is built to support local unions directly, and it is owned and maintained by union members — not an outside tech company chasing your dues.

Upload your collective bargaining agreement, department policies, SOPs, and past grievance rulings, and the assistant becomes an expert on your contract. Ask any question in plain English and get an answer with citations back to the exact page — so you can win grievances faster, prepare for negotiations, and answer member questions at any hour.

Both. Beyond answering questions about your contract, the assistant can take real action across the platform — update a member's standing, text a shift, publish a page on your public site, start a vote. It always proposes the exact change and shows a preview first; nothing runs until you confirm, it can only do what your own permissions allow, and every action is logged to the audit trail.

Yes. Every local can publish a public marketing site on its own labor.dog address — pages, a navigation menu, a media library, and a working contact form, all brand-aware with your colors, logo, and font. Build it page by page in the editor or have the AI assistant publish it for you. It's fast and cookieless by design.

The Membership roster is an auditable record of every member and their standing — active, retired, or inactive — kept separately from login accounts so dues status and eligibility stay accurate. It supports card numbers, CSV import, bulk status changes, and print-ready PDF rosters, and every status change is recorded with its effective date.

Elections use secret ballots with eligibility rules, quorum tracking, and a tamper-evident audit trail. Members vote from their phone and receive a receipt confirming their ballot was counted — without ever revealing how they voted.

File a grievance for a member, a group, or the Union and work it through a configurable, multi-step workflow that matches your CBA — your own steps, responders, and working-day deadlines. Every step shows an advisory countdown, the full history is auditable, and deadlines never auto-deny anything: the committee always decides. The AI assistant ties straight in, surfacing the exact contract articles and past rulings that back your member up.

Yes. Build agendas from your bylaws, track quorum and attendance, and record motions and votes live — Robert's Rules out of the box, with officer and committee reports pulled from your org chart. Unfinished business carries forward to the next meeting automatically, adopted minutes lock for the record (LMRDA retention), and you can export clean minutes to PDF or Word. The AI can even turn a raw meeting transcript into structured minutes in one pass.

No. You can upload and view documents in labor.dog, and we have a dedicated system so the AI can learn from them and answer questions about them — but we don't do document editing. For that we recommend Google Workspace or Microsoft Office, which are really the only tools you should be using here. Most city governments already run one of them, so your future union members and leaders most likely do too — follow best practice and follow suit.

No, and that's deliberate — it isn't smart. When you email a state senator or a government account, what matters most is that the message actually lands in their inbox. Reliable deliverability to those accounts depends on a trusted, established email provider, so we recommend using one like Google Workspace for your local's mailboxes rather than rolling our own.

Yes. Every local's data is isolated, access is controlled by role, and sensitive files like grievances and legal documents are limited to the officers who should see them. No outside vendors poke around your data.