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MARKET DEVELOPMENT / ORGANIZING

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

Employers Are Forbidden By Law to Engage in Certain Conduct.  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 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 to or assign you to a less desirable work assignment 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