ORGANIZING

ALL EMPLOYEES HAVE THE RIGHT TO:

  • Select a union bargaining agent without being threatened or intimidated by the employer.
  • Discuss the union with other employees on non-work areas, (cafeteria, snack bars, rest areas, restrooms, etc) during lunch and rest breaks.
  • Distribute union literature in non-work areas during lunch and rest breaks.
  • Be free from supervisor spying on union activities.
  • Refuse to discuss the union with supervisors or other management persons.
  • Keep record of all violations of these rights (time, people involved and incident).  
Sheet Metal Workers International Association, AFL-CIO

THE EMPLOYERS CANNOT LEGALLY:

  • Discriminate because you are a union member or because of your activities or statements in support of the union.
  • Prevent you from talking with other employees about the union in non-work areas during your lunch and rest breaks.
  • Promise you benefits to encourage you to vote against the union or abandon support of the union.
  • Grant pay increase or change your working conditions to influence your 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.
  • Give assistance to anti-union employees.
  • Solicit employee grievances and promise to remedy the grievances in order to keep the union out.
  • Have supervisors or other management persons call employees at home to ask about their support or feelings about the union.
  • Spy on employees' union activities in or outside the workplace.