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ORGANIZE!

It’s your legal RIGHT to organize a union. 

What is a UNION?

A union is simply a group of workers joined together to speak with one voice and great strength. Forming a union puts workers on equal footing with management and gives workers a say in the decisions that affect them. As a union, workers negotiate a contract with their employer. That contract is a legally binding document that guarantees jobs improvements in writing. Workers who are part of the union can also use their strength to have a voice in political and governmental decisions that affect their jobs, families, and communities. 

Why organize with RRJB?

The Rochester Regional Joint Board of Workers United is considered one of the most successful organizing unions in the country. We are a union that values local autonomy and worker democracy. We provide the support, expertise, and resources to workers to build the union that they want to create. No shop is too small and no shop is to big. If workers want to organize, we want to help. 

What are our union VALUES?

  • Dignity and respect at work
  • Retirement security with a pension
  • Quality, affordable healthcare
  • Decent pay and regular raises
  • Protection from unjust discipline
  • A voice for working people in our communities. 

Your LEGAL rights!

You have a legal right under Section 7 of the NLRA to join or support a union and to: 

  • Attend meetings to discuss forming a union. 
  • Read, distribute, and discuss union literature in non-work areas and on non-work time, during breaks and lunch hours, and before and after your shift. 
  • Sign a card or petition asking your employer to recognize and bargain with your union. 
  • Sign petitions or file grievances related to wages, hours, working conditions, and other job related issues. 
  • Ask other employees to support the union, to sign union cards to petitions, wear union items, or to file grievances. 

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

Your rights are clearly spelled out. 

Sections 7 and 8 of the Act: 

  • Section 7: “Employees shall have the right to self organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representation of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining…” 
  • Section 8: “It shall be unfair labor practice for an employer… to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights guaranteed in Section 7…”

Protection from Employer Action

Your employer CANNOT legally: 

  • Threaten to, or actually fire, layoff, discipline, harass, transfer, or reassign employees because they support the union. 
  • Favor employees who don’t support the union over those who do in promotions, job assignments, wages, hours, enforcement of rules, or any other working condition. 
  • Shut down the work site or take away any benefit or privileges employees already enjoy in order to discourage union activity. 
  • Promise employees a pay increase, promotion, benefit or special favor if they oppose the union. 

Organize your workplace today.

You and your co-workers have the power to create a democratic workplace where your voice MATTERS. 

Contact us

Want to organize a union? Email us at organizeupstate@gmail.com

Workers United Upstate New York is headquartered in Rochester, New York. 

750 East Avenue

Rochester, New York 

14607

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