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Your Rights to Organize Under the NLRB
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects your right to form and join a Union.  It also protects you from certain activities you employer might try to engage in to prevent you from joining a Union.
You have the right to:
Help form or join a Union.
Have small group meetings at lunch time or break time as long as you are not creating a disturbance or blocking the movement of others.
Talk about the Union on your own time.
Distribute literature in non-work areas on your own time.
Wear Union insignia.
Solicit other employees for Union membership, both on lunch and break time, even on company property.
Bargain over wages, working conditions and fringe benefits with your employer.

It is not legal for an employer or supervisor to:
Threaten or coerce you.
Threaten to close the facility.
Bribe employees to vote against the Union.
Deny you the right to vote for representation.
Spy on your Union activities.
Ask you about your Union activities or attitudes.
Fire, transfer or demote you in retaliation for Union activities.