By default, each member belongs to a single primary Location within your local. When multi-location users is enabled, a member can also be assigned to one or more additional locations — and they’ll then see the news, events, directories, resources, and push notifications from every location they belong to, not just their primary one. This is useful when people work across more than one site, office, or jurisdiction.
Note: Multi-location users is turned on per-local by UnionConnect. If you’d like it enabled for your local, contact support.
Primary vs. additional locations
- Primary location — the member’s home location, as it has always worked. Member counts, default content, and the member’s listed affiliation all key off this.
- Additional locations — any other locations the member also belongs to. A member gets the combined content of their primary location plus every additional location.
A location can’t be both: a location set as primary can’t also be an additional location, and vice-versa.
Assigning additional locations to a member
- Log in and open the member’s Edit form.
- In the Affiliation section, find the Additional Locations picker (a searchable, pill-style multi-select).
- Choose any other locations the member works at. Options are grouped by scope — Union-wide and per-bargaining-unit — and the member’s current primary location is shown greyed-out and marked (primary) so you can’t pick it here.
- Save the form.
The help text under the picker reads: “Members get access to resources, notifications, news, events, and other information from all additional locations they’re assigned to.”
Clearing or changing the primary location
The Primary Location field has a × Clear link beside its label, so you can leave a member with no primary location (only additional ones) if that fits your structure. If you set a member’s primary location to one that is currently an additional location, the app asks you to confirm — it will move that location from additional to primary.
Members picking their own additional locations at sign-up
When multi-location users is on, your local’s sign-up form includes an Additional Locations picker (“Pick any other locations you also work at (optional)”). New members can choose extra locations as they register, and those are applied to their account automatically. See Customizing the Registration Form.
What changes for the member
A member who belongs to multiple locations sees content fanned out across all of them:
- News / articles from every location they belong to.
- Events from every location they belong to.
- Directories from every location they belong to.
- Push notifications — a notification sent to any of their locations reaches them.
What changes for you (the admin)
- On the Locations index, each location’s member count now includes members who have it as an additional location, not only their primary — so counts may be higher than before.
- A member’s affiliation in the user list shows their additional locations alongside the primary.
- Push-notification and content-push recipient counts include additional-location members, so the totals you see when sending reflect everyone who will actually receive the message.
When multi-location users is off, everything behaves exactly as before — only the primary location is used. Turning the feature off doesn’t delete any additional-location assignments; they’re simply ignored until it’s turned back on.