​Know Your Rights​

You Have A Right to Organize: 
It's Federal Law!

​IT IS UNLAWFUL for an employer or supervisor to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees seeking to form a union. 
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  • IT IS ILLEGAL to tell employees that the institution will fire or punish us if we engage in union activity.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to lay off or discharge any employee for union activity.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to grant employees wage increases or special concessions in order to keep us from forming our union.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to bar employees from talking about our union during non-working hours.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to bar employees from talking about our union during working hours when other non-work related talk is allowed.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to ask employees about confidential union matters, meetings, etc.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to create conditions intended to get rid of an employee because of their union activity.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to ask employees about our union or union representative.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to ask employees how we intend to vote.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to ask employees whether or not we belong to a union or have signed up for a union.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to threaten workers or coerce them in an attempt to influence their vote.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to tell employees that existing benefits will be discontinued if we form our union.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to say unionization will force the employer to layoff workers.
 
  • IT IS ILLEGAL to say unionization will take away vacations or other benefits and privileges presently in effect.​
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  • IT IS ILLEGAL to promise employees promotions, raises or other benefits if we get out of our union.​
​Are you being bullied or harassed for your union activity? Contact your Organizing Committee: [email protected]. We will advocate for you.
We are the In House Staff of 1199SEIU UHWE.
We work across the eastern seaboard, from Massachusetts to Florida.
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We are voting to become members of the Washington Baltimore News Guild (WBNG)
Local 32035, The NewsGuild-CWA, AFL-CIO.
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To learn more about our union representative, visit: https://wbng.org/.