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Protected Activities. Federal and state labor laws prohibit most employers from coercing, prohibiting, or otherwise interfering with employees’ protected organizing activities. . Protected Employee Activities. Attend meetings, devise organizing strategies and support each other;
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Protected Activities • Federal and state labor laws prohibit most employers from coercing, prohibiting, or otherwise interfering with employees’ protected organizing activities.
Protected Employee Activities • Attend meetings, devise organizing strategies and support each other; • Read and distributing union literature in non-work areas (such as parking lots) during non-work time (e.g. breaks, lunch, after work); • Talk about the union on work time (if non-work conversation is generally accepted); • Sign an authorization card asking your employer to recognize and bargain with your union; • Sign petitions or file grievances about wages, working conditions, and other job issues; and • Ask other employees to support the union, to sign authorization cards or petitions and to file grievances. • From: http://www.las-elc.org/factsheets/unions-organize.html
Protected Employer Activities • Taft-Hartley provides protection for employers. • Express their opinions in written or verbal form in opposition of unionization; and • File a petition asking NLRB to determine majority preference for a union. • Generally, the first item must be free from coercion, promises of benefits if the union is opposed.
Retailiation • Retaliation by employers should be reported as an unfair labor practice to the NLRB.