The middle class is stronger when workers can join together and bargain for a better life.

• Union workers' median weekly earnings are 30% higher than nonunion workers'.
• 80% of union workers have employer-provided health insurance; only 49% of nonunion workers do.
• 68% of union workers have a guaranteed pension through a defined benefit plan; only 14% of nonunion workers do.
• 62% of union workers have short-term disability benefits; only 35% of nonunion workers do.
• Union workers have, on average, 15 days of paid vacation, time to spend with their families; nonunion workers only have, on average, 11.75 days of paid vacation.

Americans want the freedom to bargain for a better life.

• More than half of the U.S. workforce – nearly 60 million workers – say they would join a union right now if they could.  Yet only 12 percent of the workforce has a union.