Political
Action

Organizing

LECET

Training

Home / Resources / LEROF

Laborer's Eastern Region Organizing Fund (LEROF)

Dedicated to helping workers form and join the Laborers Union, the LEROF team is committed to the protection and advancement of worker’s rights and has engaged in some of the nation’s most successful union organizing campaigns.

Organizing

In 1997, former LiUNA Vice President and Eastern Regional Manager Raymond M. Pocino founded the Laborers’ Eastern Region Organizing Fund (LEROF).

LIUNA’s strength lies in its idea that unions work both for employees and employers. The power of LEROF rests in the skills and talents of members who actively participate in organizing campaigns the 30 full-time organizers and the thousands of member volunteers who give there time and energy in support of Laborers’ International Union of North America and workers everywhere.

If workers are dissatisfied with their working conditions, we may be able to help.

If workers want the support of their co-workers and a voice on the job, we may be able to help.

If workers want better for themselves and their family - better wages, better benefits, better working conditions, we may be able to help.

Do You Understand the LiUNA Difference?

The average wage for a union construction worker is PAID is $33.60, compared with $23.05 for a non- union construction worker, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A heavy-highway LIUNA worker averages $41.94 an hour in wages and benefits, compared to $18.93 for non-union Laborers, according to Engineering News Record’s Construction Economics Department.

For women in a union, the weekly pay advantage is 32% over non-union women in the workforce.

For Hispanic union workers, the weekly pay advantage is 42%.

For African American union workers, the weekly pay advantage is 33%.

85% of union workers have health care insurance which includes medical, dental, vision and prescription drugs compared to the 54% of non-union workers.

76% of union workers have a guaranteed defined-benefit pension plan while only 16% of non-union workers have a pension plan.

With a Union you will have legal protections and the support of an organization and each other. Some employers will be there for you when times are good, but LIUNA will be there for you all the time.

For Members:

For Workers

Among union workers

0 %

in medium-sized and large establishments had health care benefits in 1995,

compared with

0 %

of nonunion workers.

0 %

of union workers had pension plans in 1995,

compared with

0 %

of nonunion workers.

And union members’ pensions are better:

0 %

of union workers

compared with

0 %

of non union workers have “defined benefit” retirement coverage that provides a guaranteed monthly payment rather than “defined-contribution” plans, in which benefit amounts depend on how well the underlying investments perform.

Nearly half of union workers have been with their current employer for at least

Years

while only

0 %

of nonunion workers have that degree of job stability.

Unions increase productivity:
Most studies show that union workplaces are more productive.

Shared
decision-making, better training and lower turnover make a difference.

Why Become a Union Laborer?

In today’s job market, many people can’t afford to be stuck in a dead-end job. They need to earn good wages, receive quality health care benefits and a pension plan. Workers also need job stability, a sense that their hard work will be rewarded.

With close to 100 years of experience and 800,000 members worldwide, the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) has both the strength and know-how to advance the interests of its working men and women.

LIUNA is known world-wide for providing the construction industry’s most versatile workforce. But it also represents workers from numerous other fields, as well, including education, environmental remediation, security, sports and entertainment service employees, sanitation and recycling, manufacturing and more.

Laborer's Eastern Region Organizing Fund (LEROF)

Organizing

Do You Understand the LiUNA Difference?

For Members:

For Workers

Why Become a Union Laborer?

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

Important Announcement

Secretary Bullock just announced early voting in Delaware.