You Have a right to organize into Everybody's Union. The USW.

Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees, not their employer, have the right to decide whether or not they want a union to represent them. The power is your hands.

  • It is your right to choose Steelworker representation is protected by federal law.

  • Expressing support for a union at the workplace Helping organize a union with your coworkers

  • The National Labor Relations Act says that “employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join or assist labor organizations.”

  • Complaining about work-related matters to a supervisor, government agency, the press, or any other person.

  • Your employer may not threaten to or fire, demote or otherwise discriminate against you and your co-workers for supporting a Union.

You Have Rights @Work!

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to attend meetings to learn more about the union.

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to talk to your coworkers about the union on non-work time—on breaks, lunch, before you clock in and after you clock out.

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to wear a union button at work.

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to give out union literature in non-work areas and on non-work time.

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to participate in union actions, delegations, petitions, etc.

  • YOUR HAVE RIGHT to sign a card asking your employer to bargain with the union.