Union membership provides many advantages:

• Membership gives you the ability to work for a Union contractor, which guarantees you will receive a living wage for your work, and work in an environment that is concerned with your health and safety.
• Membership provides training in skills needed to do the job and to stay current with new equipment and technologies.
• Membership makes your craft portable; you can move to a new region and find work within a new local.
• Membership gives you a voice in bargaining for wages and benefits.
• Membership affords you representation when settling on work conditions.
• Membership affords you representation when problems arise on the job.
• Membership affords you representation in local, state, and federal public policy.
• Membership gives you pride and dignity that comes from belonging to an organization that is active in the community and devoted to good citizenship.
• Membership gives you access to educational programs for yourself and your family.