Workers have rights. It is your right under federal law to form a union, select representatives of your choice and bargain collectively with your employer. These rights help balance the power that an employer holds over his or her employees.

Further, being part of a union protects you and provides you with rights you don’t have individually.

• A living wage
• A pension
• Paid health care
• Better sickness and accident benefits
• Better working conditions

By federal law, once you have formed a union, your employer must bargain with you on wages, hours and working conditions.

Remember, it is your LEGAL right to:
• Join a union of your choosing
• Attend a union meeting on your own time
• Talk to a union organizer
• Declare yourself a union supporter
• Assist in forming a union

And, your employer may NOT legally:
• Threaten you with discharge or punishment if you engage in union activity
• Threaten to shut down their 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 you how you or other workers intend to vote in an election
• Ask you whether you belong to a union or have signed up to join a union
• Transfer you or assign you to less desirable work because of your union activity
• Threaten to terminate your benefits because you unionize
• Threaten that voting for a union will be retaliated against by a layoff or loss of jobs.