What can a union offer me on things like working conditions and hours of work?
Union contracts often provide for fair and flexible working hours, better pay for overtime and work on evenings and weekends, more paid holidays, paid family and medical leave and employer help with child care and elder care. Besides your union contract, unions lobby for better laws and programs to help Americas working families. Unions were a major force behind passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act and are working hard for improved child care, elder care and other policies. With todays unions, working people have a better chance to balance not only our family budgets but our family schedules. Balancing the demands of jobs and families is a challenge for most working Americans, and todays unions help working women and men gain a little control over our lives.
