Get Your Workplace Organized

Please take the time to read about the positive difference a Union can make in your workplace and your life, the steps necessary to organize a Union, your rights under the law and ways to contact a Union organizer.

THE UNION DIFFERENCE
Union workers’ median weekly earnings2
Nonunion workers’ median weekly earnings
$1,337
$1,138
Young (ages 16-24) Union workers’ median weekly earnings2
Young (ages 16-24) nonunion workers’ median weekly earnings
$922
$735
Union women’s median weekly earnings2
Nonunion women’s median weekly earnings
$1,232
$1,016
African American Union workers’ median weekly earnings2
African American nonunion workers’ median weekly earnings
$1,130
$933
Latino Union workers’ median weekly earnings2
Latino nonunion workers’ median weekly earnings
$1,161
$884
Union workers participating in job-provided health insurance1
Nonunion workers participating in job-provided health insurance
72%
45%
Union workers participating in employer-sponsored retirement benefits1
Nonunion workers participating in employer-sponsored retirement benefits
82%
53%
Union workers with paid sick leave1
Nonunion workers with paid sick leave
92%
80%
Union workers have the right to a grievance procedure
Nonunion workers are At Will Employees

  1. 1 - U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey, Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2025 (Tables 1, 2, and 6).
  2. 2 - U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Union Members—2024, Table 2 (Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by union affiliation and selected characteristics), released January 28, 2025.

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