Estados Unidos de América - 15% of the private sector workforce excluded from the right to join unions (2013)

In the private sector, managerial and supervisory employees, independent contractors and domestic workers have no right to form or join union, nor do agricultural workers except in a small number of states. These excluded categories of workers constitute approximately 15% of the private sector workforce. In the public sector, workers cannot be prevented from or punished for forming or joining organisations of their own choosing, including unions. However, as noted below, more than 7 million federal, state and local government employees, representing more than a third of the public sector workforce, do not have the right to collectively bargain—an essential corollary of the right to form unions.