Know YOUR Rights!

Your have the legal right to join and support a union and to:

• Attend meetings during non-work time to discuss joining a union
• Talk about the union whenever other non-work talk is allowed
• Read and distribute union literature as long as you do this in non-work areas during non-work times such as breaks, lunch hours or before or after work
• Sign a card or petition to show support for a union
• Ask other employees to support the union, to sign cards or petitions requesting your employer to recognize and bargain with your union

It is illegal for your employer to:

• Threaten to or actually fire, lay off, discipline, harass, transfer, or reassign employees because they support the union
• Favor employees who don’t support the union over those who do in promotions, job assignments, wages, hours, enforcement of rules or any other working condition
• Shut down the work site or take away any benefits or privileges employees already enjoy in order to discourage union activity
• Promise employees a pay increase, promotion, benefit or special favor if they oppose the union
• Ask employees if they attended a union meeting, if they support the union or any other questions about their union activity
• Refuse to deal with the union once employees vote to be reprensented