By joining together, we can build strength.

Together we can build the strength to hold elected officials accountable, stop the "race to the bottom" by employers who cut wages and benefits in favor of bigger profits, and win improvements such as affordable, quality health care for all.

When united, our power is unstoppable. We have the collective power to ensure our economy continues to grow with good jobs, that families aren't torn apart by partisan politics, and to ensure that the world we live in cleaner and safer for future generations.

Unions brought you the 8-hour work day and weekend. Together, we plan on doing much more.

For people of color and women workers, the union impact is even greater.

Women workers who are union members earn nearly $9,000 a year more than their non-union counterparts. For African-American workers, the union differential is also about $9,000, and for Latino workers the yearly advantage is more than $11,000.

Union members have also been on the front lines of the fight for civil rights. Beyond raising wages and improving benefits, union representation bolsters protections against discrimination for women and people of color and gives them more tools to fight for equal opportunity. The added heft unions bring in challenging discrimination is critical: fair employment laws ban a panoply of practices that have the intention or effect of discriminating, but equal opportunity is not a self-enforcing promise. Vindicating non-discrimination rights requires workers to lodge charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and often, file suit against employers. Litigation is costly, time-consuming and intimidating, imposing burdens most workers, particularly low-wage earners, simply cannot bear. Union representation places equal opportunity more in reach for people of color and women.

The "union advantage" is substantial.

Through unions, workers join together to win better wages, benefits and a voice on the job – and good union jobs mean stronger communities. Unions give workers a voice at work, to bargain as a group for benefits such as non-discrimination protections and domestic partner benefits. Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t union members.

On average, union workers’ wages are 30 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts. While only 14 percent of nonunion workers have guaranteed pensions, fully 68 percent of union workers do. More than 97 percent of union workers have jobs that provide health insurance benefits, but only 85 percent of nonunion workers do. Unions help employers create a more stable, productive workforce—where workers have a say in improving their jobs.

Unions help all workers.

Unions lead the fight today for better lives for all working people. Unions play a pivotal role both in securing legislated labor protections and rights such as safety and health, overtime, and family/medical leave and in enforcing those rights on the job for all workers. When unions join together and behind advocating for better wages, non-union workers then see the power of unity and start demanding better treatment themselves.

Unions help all working families a stronger voice in our communities, in the political arena, and in the global economy.

Working together, union members have the strength.

When workers come together around issues in the workplace, the goal is simple: to do together what they can’t do alone.

Workers united, will never be defeated.