Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Can I form or join a union?

This is an extremely common question and so, just to set minds at ease...


Article 23, paragraph 4 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states

    Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his/her interests.


http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

1 comment:

On Strike said...

http://www.nlrb.gov/workplace_rights/nlra_violations.aspx


Your right to form a union in the United States was enshrined in the Wagner Act in 1935 now referred to as the National Labor Relations Act.

Here's the language:

"The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) forbids employers from interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for collective-bargaining purposes, or engaging in protected concerted activities, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these rights."