Make Work Pay!

Make Work Pay! seeks to unite millions of working people into a movement to restore the American Dream for all of us. Working with community groups, people of faith and public officials, the Make Work Pay! campaign seeks to secure for all working people:

A paycheck that supports a family
Affordable health care
A retirement with security
The freedom to form a union to give workers a voice on the job
We call it Make Work Pay! because for too many people 40 hours of hard work does not provide the basics of the American Dream.

Make Work Pay! is mobilizing working Americans to confront the peril faced by the middle class. As CEO pay skyrockets and corporate profits go up and up, most workers are being left behind. The gap between the rich and everyone else is gaping and growing. We believe the best way to preserve the middle class ­ and the American way of life that depends on a middle class ­ is to help millions more workers unite with the union movement. To do that we are focused on uniting workers in the hospitality, construction, retail, food, healthcare, transportation and other critical industries.

Make Work Pay! was initiated by Change to Win, a federation of seven international unions representing 6 million working people. The unions are the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers' International Union of North America, Service Employees International Union, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, United Farm Workers of America, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and UNITE HERE.