Unions

At the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards, we’re committed to advancing labor-management transparency while ensuring workers have a voice in their workplaces.  

Earlier this summer, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh joined President Biden, union workers and retirees in Cleveland, Ohio, to announce the final rule implementing the American Rescue Plan’s Special Financial Assistance program. This program will provide financial relief to millions of unionized workers in multiemployer plans who faced significant cuts to their pensions. We caught up with Kenneth W. Stribling, president of the National United Committee to Protect Pensions, to share how the Special Financial Assistance program will benefit them and their family.  

The right to organize and the National Labor Relations Board’s enforcement of those rights mean nothing if workers do not know about them. And that’s where the Department of Labor plays a big role.

Labor Day is a time for honoring and celebrating the struggles and achievements workers and their unions have made, and continue to make.

America’s labor unions, likewise, have a long history of supporting actions that empower working people and advance our economy.

Across the country, workers are organizing with their co-workers and engaging in collective action to gain improvements in their jobs and workplaces. What can we learn from these recent organizing efforts? How do they fit in the broader history of worker organizing in the United States? And how can the Department of Labor support worker organizing to advance our mission of improving working conditions for all workers?  

Last month, we observed Workers Memorial Day, a day when we remember and honor workers who lost their lives as a result of preventable workplace accidents and illnesses. A safe workplace should be ingrained in all of us and something we think about as a matter of course each day.

Learn how higher levels of union membership promise to help reduce – and someday eliminate – gender inequity in our workplaces and deliver greater economic security for workers in our post-pandemic economy.

Union approval is the highest it has been in nearly 50 years, with 60 million non-union workers saying they would vote for a union if they could. Now is the time to act.

A White House task force is putting the federal government’s policy of encouraging worker organizing and collective bargaining into action.