This is a question of both strategy and legality, but the bottom line remains the same: the union and management must agree on a raise before it happens.
Yes! The right to organize a union is protected by federal law. States can't take your right to form a union away and employers can't make you sign it away.
Union neutrality is a promise made by management not to interfere during an organizing drive. It typically creates a more collaborative, less expensive, and less time-consuming unionizing process and negotiations.
When you form a union, you’ll need to eventually collect what are called authorization cards. Sometimes nicknamed auth cards (or authorization signature if you’re using unit), they can be physical or electronic, but their main purpose is to record a worker’s interest in union recognition.
The factors that classify someone as a manager or supervisor may not always be so clearcut, but there are general differences that can help you narrow your list down.
Aly spoke with Unit about her history as a worker in the same industries she now organizes, her experiences running union campaigns, and the challenges she sees organized labor needing to overcome to better serve and uplift workers across the United States.
Labor Organizer Villanueva recently spoke with Unit about the rights of undocumented workers and his experiences as an organizer dedicated to empowering them on the job.
Especially if you’re just getting started, this may seem like a lot to take in, but it’s important to know that you need to be strategic about who your union represents from the outset and be able to see through the sometimes murky lines that divide you and your coworkers from management.
