There are many reasons to join!

Join To Support National & Local Efforts Done On Behalf Of All Federal Workers!
First and foremost, union dues help support national and local efforts that serve to help all Federal employees. These efforts help to ensure better benefits, protect worker rights, and improve the overall working environment for all Federal employees including managers. Union workers lobby Congress for input into congressional decisions that impact federal workers and bargain with management regarding employee concerns. It is more honorable to contribute to these efforts than to get a free ride.

Join For Strength In Numbers!
There is strength in numbers. Management will take employee concerns more seriously and will think twice before taking unnecessary and unwarranted adverse actions that waste valuable tax payer dollars. The postal union is a good example. They have close to 100% participation and have had better success lobbying for better benefits and bargaining on behalf of constituent concerns.

Join For Case Representation!
The union can help in times of trouble and can help ensure a fair process. Troubled times can fall on any Federal employee. Even some of the best Federal employees can and have become unfair targets of management for one reason or another.

Should the situation arise where a USEPA Region 5 employees needs representation, that representation costs. Due to these costs, Federal unions have no duty to represent non-members in statutory appeal procedures. Dues paying members enjoy the benefit and insurance of free representation when and if they need it. The union can only do so much for non-dues paying members. These members for example are not entitled to representation in cases before the Merit System Protection Board, the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Office of Personnel Management. They are also not represented in arbitration or in ULPs. (See Self-Serve vs Full-Serve Costs of Representation)

Join To Receive A Host Of Member Benefits!
The Union also has some great member benefits including payroll deduction for computer equipment, dental insurance, and hardship loans.

A win for the union is a win for all Federal employees. Why not support efforts? Overall, it pays to be a member!