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Unions are Important to the Department’s Mission. Unions help the Department of Labor fulfill its mission to protect the health, safety, wages and retirement security of working Americans. Workers represented by unions feel safer voicing concerns about workplace safety and health, wage theft and other violations of worker protections. Unions ...
- Pass the PRO Act. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (the PRO Act), H.R. 2474, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 6, 2020, by a bipartisan vote of 224–194.
- Pass the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act and the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act. Pass these two acts so that all public-sector workers have the ability to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
- Reaffirm in statutory language that the purpose of labor law is to promote and encourage organizing and collective bargaining. Reaffirm in statutory language that the purpose of labor law is to promote and encourage organizing and collective bargaining and that the NLRB’s actions must further this goal.
- Amend the NLRA to expand access for workers and union organizers to discuss unionization at the workplace. Workers need a fair chance to hear from union representatives about the benefits of unionization, including the ways in which unions help strengthen health and safety protections at the workplace.
Dec 15, 2021 · In this report, we document the correlation between higher levels of unionization in states and a range of economic, personal, and democratic well-being measures. In the same way unions give workers a voice at work, with a direct impact on wages and working conditions, the data suggest that unions also give workers a voice in shaping their communities. Where workers have this power, states ...
Aug 28, 2023 · One of the most oft-cited benefits of unions is the so-called “union wage premium”—the amount that union members make above and beyond non-members. While simple comparisons of the wages of union workers and nonunion workers find that union workers typically make about 20 percent more than nonunion workers, [5] economists turn to other types of analysis to capture causal effects of unions ...
Jul 11, 2024 · Study after study has shown that unions make our economy and democracy stronger by boosting wages for workers, reducing wage inequality, increasing voter turnout for union and nonunion voters ...
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Aug 24, 2017 · This representation makes organized labor one of the largest institutions in America.2. By providing data on union coverage, activities, and impacts, this report helps explain how unions fit into the economy today; how they affect workers, communities, occupations and industries, and the country at large; and why collective bargaining is ...
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