Download the PDF Version. Over six million union members working in professional occupations have better pay, benefits, and working conditions because they collectively bargain with their employers.
Union membership continues to narrow the gender pay gap for professional women. In response to the impacts of the COVID pandemic, union professionals have been able to negotiate for improved health and safety standards, financial assistance for extended work-from-home arrangements, and a say in how vaccine requirements and office re-openings are implemented.
Working professionals have the right to join together with their colleagues to form unions and negotiate with their employers on important workplace issues. Through the process of collective bargaining, employees are able to develop a binding contract that guarantees specific salaries, benefits, and other conditions of employment, just like the contracts that many CEOs have.
Over six million professionals benefit from collective bargaining agreements that protect their pay, benefits and working conditions, including doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, professors, research scientists, engineers, performers, technicians, administrative professionals, and many more in hundreds of other occupations.
Joining together in union and negotiating with their employers allows professionals to speak with a collective voice that is stronger than any one person could hope to have. As a result, professionals who are union members are also able to have a greater role in shaping legislation and policy that impacts them and their industries.
