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LEGAL RIGHT TO JOIN

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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.