Collective bargaining means more rights and more power to shape our lives. Collectively we have more power to negotiate than we have as individuals.

Without a union:

• The company unilaterally determines our working conditions and can change them at any time without our consent.

With a union:

• We elect a bargaining committee that gathers input from workers across the company.
• That bargaining committee negotiates a contract on equal footing with the company.
• That contract can only be approved democratically, through a worker vote.
• That contract determines our terms and conditions of employment and is binding and enforceable, usually through appeal to a neutral arbitrator.