Who joins labor unions?
People from every walk of life who work for an employer – but are not managers – join unions. Union members include carpenters and custodians, doctors and doormen, engineers and electricians, schoolteachers and steelworkers, waitresses and writers.Q: Why do workers join labor unions?A: Workers join labor unions for many reasons. They may join a union to seek higher wages and better benefits: union workers usually earn more than workers who perform the same job but don’t belong to a union. They may join a union for a voice at work: employees together can get management to listen when they have a complaint or constructive suggestion about how work is done. They may join a union to seek fair treatment in the workplace: a union-negotiated grievance procedure gives an employee “due process” rights in discipline proceedings.Q: Isn’t discrimination at work against the law?A: Many kinds of discrimination at work are prohibited by law. For instance, your employer is forbidden from discriminatin
