Connecticut Laborers' District Council

Find Out About The Laborers' Difference.

Better Pay, Pensions, Health Care and Opportunity
Construction workers who belong to a union make more money per hour - regardless of whether they're men or women, and regardless of their ethnic background.

For Laborers in specialized areas, the difference is even greater, according to the ENR Construction Economics Department. For example heavy-highway union Laborers average $25.47 an hour in wages and fringe benefits, compared with $13.72 for heavy-highway laborers not in the union - that's 86 percent more.

Pensions and Retirement Security
The vast majority of union construction workers have a pension so they can retire with security. The vast majority of construction workers without a union do not have retirement security.

Health Care and Stability
The vast majority of union construction workers have health insurance. The majority of construction workers without a union must go without job-provided health care.

Union construction workers have more stable work - those who belong to a union work 25 percent longer for the same employer than workers who don't have a union.

Opportunity For Advancement
Laborers have access to what has been called the best adult education program in North America - the union's network of hundreds of classroom and hands-on training programs that build skills and open the doors to more opportunity. For a glimpse of training programs, just call us at (860) 296-8697.