Your Union Rights in the United States

YOU HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO:

• Join a union.

• Attend a union meeting on your own time.

• Talk to a union organizer.

• Declare yourself a union supporter.

• Assist in forming a union.

EMPLOYERS ARE FORBIDDEN BY LAW TO:

• Threaten you with discharge or punishment if you engage in union activity.

• Threaten to shut down business if workers form a union.

• Prevent you from soliciting members during non-working hours.

• Question you about union matters, union meetings, or union supporters.

• Ask how you or other workers intend to vote in an election.

• Ask whether you belong to a union or have signed up to join a union.

• Transfer or assign you to a less desirable work assignment because of your union activity.

• Threaten to terminate your benefits because you unionize.

• Threaten a layoff or loss of jobs in retaliation for voting for a union.

Right to Organize

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 

-Bill of Rights, First Amendment

Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other mutual aid or protection.  

-National Labor Relations Act 1935