Local 342 cares about your working rights, regardless of your immigration status. We will do everything we can to protect your rights. If your employer violates your right to participate in or organize a union, Local 342 legal counsel will provide representation free of charge (at the NLRB), and do everything legally possible to protect your rights.
If you’re not sure what a Union can do for you, a recent study released by the Center for Economic Policy Research found that unionized immigrant workers earn better wages and have better benefits than non-union immigrant workers.
Here are some of the findings:
- Unionized immigrant workers earn 17.6 percent more in wages or $2.60 more per hour.
- Unionized immigrant workers are 26 percent more likely to have employer-provided health insurance.
- Unionized immigrant workers are 27 percent more likely to have a pension plan than similar non-union immigrants.
- For immigrant workers who work in the 15 lowest wage occupations, unionization raised wages 17 percent, and they were 41 percent more likely to have health insurance and 18 percent more likely to have a pension.
Some facts about Latinos in the labor movement:
- Immigrants are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S. In 2007, Latinos made up 14 percent of the American workforce.
- Immigrants are also the fastest growing group in the labor movement. In 1983 they accounted for 6 percent of the unionized workers. By 2007 they represented almost 12 percent.
Local 342 is only concerned about the rights of workers, no matter what their status is. If you’d like to learn more, you can read more about the benefits of a Union or about organizing a Union at your workplace.
