Union Difference

I choose to stand together

• with 2 million SEIU members across the country. Click here to see list of what we are fighting for in Congress.
   
• I choose to stand together with my union brothers and sisters to protect our wages, our health insurance, our pensions, and our working conditions. Click here to see the list.

I choose to Stand Alone

and suffer from the consequences of the attacks on our wages, our benefits and public services by organizations like the Freedom Foundation. 

• Americans for Prosperity states simply:  “The federal government has already provided an unprecedented level of assistance to state and local governments. More federal bailouts of state and local governments should be rejected.”
   
• watch my average pay go down.  
  • Workers in “Right-to-Work” states make $6,109 less per year than their counterparts in collective bargaining states. State workers in Wisconsin have not been allowed to negotiate a salary increase of more than 2% total for the last seven years.
• see our political power weaken so I don’t have a union to fight legislation that cuts my benefits. 
  • Members in Wisconsin saw an immediate 24% cutback to their benefits with the passage of anti-union legislation in 2010. Workers in Wisconsin have lost the right to negotiate over benefits, retirement, and working conditions.
• Without a union:
  • Employers act unchecked, lowering wages and cutting benefits
     
  • State legislatures are free to pass laws that shift costs to working people, erode voting rights, and exempt corporations from paying their fair share.