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Labor Day 2023

It's Better in a Union

Standing together with co-workers in a union makes a tangible difference you can feel every day. Here are just a few benefits: 

  • Workers in labor unions make 18% more in wages than our nonunion counterparts. 
  • We are more likely to have health care benefits. More than nine out of 10 union members have access to employer-provided health insurance, compared to 68% of nonunion workers, according to the Department of Labor.
  • We work in safer workplaces. One study found job sites that were unionized have lost-time claims at a 31% lower rate than non-unionized sites.
  • We have more job security—even and especially in moments of economic crisis.

Countries where most workers are in a union are among the happiest and healthiest on Earth. 

Life is better in a union.

That’s why this Labor Day we’re celebrating our fundamental right to organize by reminding workers across the world—it’s better in a union! 
 

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