Management or Company Officials Cannot:
- Attend any union meeting, park across the street from the meeting place to see which employees attend the meeting, or engage in any under-cover activity which would make employees feel they are being spied upon to determine who is participating in the Union campaign.
- Tell employees the company will fire or punish them if they engage in Union activity.
- Lay-off, discharge or discipline any employee for Union activity.
- Grant employees wage increases, promotions or benefits in order to keep the Union out.
- Ask employees about their own Union membership or activities or those of fellow employees, including meeting attendance, card soliciting or signing and other forms of Union participation.
- Assign work to create conditions intended to get rid of an employee because of Union activity.
- Ask employees how they intend to vote.
- Threaten employees with economic reprisals for participating in Union activities. For example, threaten to close or sell the facility, lay-off workers or reduce employee benefits.
- Promise benefits to employees if they vote against the Union.
- Announce that the company will not bargain with a Union.
- Discriminate against Union supporters when assigning overtime or desirable work.
- Purposely team up anti-Union employees and keep them apart from Union supporters.
- Transfer workers on the basis of Union activities.
- Choose employees to be laid-off on the basis of weakening the Union’s strength.
- Discipline Union supporters for a particular action, and allow anti-Union employees to go unpunished for the same action.
- Go against company policy for the purpose of getting rid of a Union supporter.
- Take actions that adversely affect an employee’s job or pay rate because of Union activity.
- Threaten a Union supporter through a third party.
- Threaten workers or coerce them in an attempt to influence their vote.
- Tell employees overtime work or premium pay will be discontinued if the facility is organized.
- Start a petition against the Union, or take part in its circulation if started by employees.
- Urge employees to try to influence others to oppose the Union.
