| Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), you are entitled to certain rights as an employee. It is important for you to be familiar with these rights and the 35 THINGS YOUR EMPLOYER CANNOT DO, because it is unlawful for your employer, supervisor or foreman to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees seeking to organize or join a labor union.
“SECTION 7. (Of the NLRA) Employees shall have the right to self-organize, to form, join or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”
What these rights mean.
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It is YOUR LEGAL RIGHT as an employee to:
- Join a union of your choosing.
- Attend a union meeting on your own time.
- Sign a union card or get others to sign cards.
- Talk to a union organizer.
- Assist in forming a union.
- Talk union to other employees.
- Wear union buttons or pass out union literature.
- Join together and work as a team in order to help each other.
- Deal with their employer as a group, rather than individually.
- Take group action as necessary in order to gain desired goals so long as these actions violate no other laws.
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It DOES NOT MEAN that employees have the right to:
Carry on union activity during working hours or to allow their union activity to interfere with their jobs. (For this purpose, break time and lunch time ARE NOT CONSIDERED WORKING HOURS).
Membership in the Insulators Union, like membership in any other organization, comes with the obligation to pay periodic dues. These dues are set by a vote of the membership. The dues help pay for the costs of representing workers’ interests and collective bargaining.
It really doesn’t cost to belong to a union-IT PAYS. According to the U. S. Department of Labor, the difference between Union and non-union pay is $154.00 per week. That is a difference of $7,392.00 per year. Also, as a member of Local #19 you have the opportunity to invest for your retirement with both a Pension Plan and an Annuity Plan. In 2006 the average contribution for a Journeyman that worked only 40 hours & 50 weeks invested over $16,000.00 into their retirement funds.
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