The Power of Joining/Creating a Labor Union

To improve the lives and their communities, Americans have long worked together. Whether it is a parent-teacher association or just a local community group. In unions, workers join forces in an effort to better the conditions of the place where they spend most of their waking hours – their workplace. The right of workers to form unions and negotiate with their employers, also referred to as collective bargain, is universally accepted as a fundamental human right around the world. United States citizens have a constitutional right to free speech, which many Americans support diligently. More than 16 million people working in the United States are exercising their right to union representation.