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How to Form a Union

Workers seeking to form a union at their workplace should talk to their co-workers to build support around issues they are facing.

Often workers do this through forming an organizing committee.  Workers can contact an established union for support and guidance, or they may seek to organize their own independent union.

How to Form a Union

Workers Want Unions

Graph image showing percentage of workers

52%

of non-union workers want to join a union

Only 11.3% of workers are represented by a union

Only 11.3% of workers are represented by a union

Sources: Hertel-Fernandez et al., What Forms of Representation Do American Workers Want? (ILR Review 2022); BLS Union Members 2022

Sources: Hertel-Fernandez et al., What Forms of Representation Do American Workers Want? (ILR Review 2022); BLS Union Members 2022

The Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge (WORK) Center is a one-stop shop for information and resources on unions and collective bargaining for workers, employers, unions, government agencies, students and anyone interested in unions and collective bargaining.