American Labor Merit Badge
Learn about workers' rights, labor unions, collective bargaining, and workplace concerns. Explore employment issues and labor relations to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- Worker Concerns Using resources available to you, learn about working people and work-related concerns.
- Visiting a Labor Organization With your counselor’s and parent or guardian’s approval and permission, visit the office or attend a meeting of a local …
- What Labor Unions Do Explain to your counselor what labor unions are, what they do, and what services they provide to members.
- Bargaining Models Explain what is meant by the adversarial model of labor-management relations, compared with a cooperative-bargaining …
At a glance
- Requirements
- 9
- Category
- Trades
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- December 24, 2025