Unions gave us what we take for granted:
- Weekends
- All breaks at work, including lunch
- Paid vacation
- Family Medical Leave Act
- Sick leave
- Social Security
- Minimum wage
- Civil Rights Act/Title VII
- Eight-hour workday, 40-hour work week
- Overtime pay
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Worker's Compensation
- Unemployment insurance
- Pensions
- Workplace safety standards and regulations
- Employer health care insurance
- Collective bargaining rights for employees
- Child Labor, Wrongful Termination, Whistleblower, and Sexual Harassment laws
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act
- Veteran's Employment and Training Services
- Compensation increases and evaluations (raises)
- American With Disabilities Act
- Holiday pay
- Employer dental, life, and vision insurance
- Privacy rights
- Pregnancy and parental leave
- Military leave
- The right to strike
- Public education for children
- Equal Pay Acts, 1963, 2011
- Laws ending sweatshops