The decline has a rateAbout a point a year for seventy-five years. Stay on that line and the trend answers for you.
Why ODIN
Union density in the trades did not fall because the work got worse or the people stopped caring. It fell while nobody was keeping score.
National building-trades union density — historical estimates and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures for the trades nationally. This is not any one local's market share; a strong local sits well above this line. The trend is the point.
The whole picture
Officials spend hours a day reading job reports by hand. ODIN takes the bulk import and surfaces only what changed and what is worth a phone call.
Report prep that costs a business agent days is assembled from data already in the platform — from the local's own CBA rate, not an estimate.
Every bid tracked against every award. See exactly where the market is slipping and what it would take to close the next comparable job.
Recognition
When a job turns out to matter, ODIN shows who spotted it. A contractor gets signed. A prevailing-wage bid gets won. That is recognition — and in a union hall, recognition is everything.
Coverage by official, entries by territory, outcomes attached to the person who did the work. Not a surveillance tool. A record that finally credits the people who are already doing the job right.
Built for a union hall, not a software company
One screen gives a complete overview of the jurisdiction — pipeline, active work, partial data, completed jobs.
Total hours lost, hours recoverable, and the specific waivers it would take to win the work back.
Designed for the field. No advanced computer skills, no new hardware, no IT department.
Let's calculate them together — from your own collective bargaining agreement, on a thirty-minute screen share. No cost, no obligation, and nothing to install first.
Michael Guinan, Founder & CEO — mguinan@odin-union.com