Our Legal Rights.

All Employees Have a Right To:

  • Select a union bargaining agent without being threatened or intimidated by the employer.

  • Discuss our union anytime any other non-work related conversations are permitted.

  • Wear buttons supporting organizing or collective bargaining activities.

  • Be free from management spying for the purpose of observing union activities, refuse to discuss the union with supervisors or other personnel in a managerial capacity.

  • Keep written records of all violation of these rights (time, place, people involved and incident). 

The Employer Cannot:

  • Discriminate because of our union membership, or our activities or statements in support of our union.

  • Prevent us from talking with other employees about our union in non-work areas during your lunch and rest breaks.

  • Interfere with our right to wear a button supporting organizing or bargaining activities

  • Promise benefits to encourage us to vote against or abandon support for the union.

  • Grant a pay increase, resolve a grievance, or change working conditions to influence our support or feelings about the union.

  • Threaten to close the facility or lay off employees if the union is selected.

  • Compel an employee to discuss the union or any matters related to it.

  • Support or give assistance to anti-union employees.

  • Solicit grievances or promise to remedy them to keep the union out.

  • Have supervisors or management persons call employees at home to ask about their support or feelings about the union.

  • Spy on employees for the purpose of observing union activities.

Visit the NLRB.gov for more information.