Clinic Workers Can:
- Talk about forming a union while at work, just as you would other topics such as vacations, your children, or favorite movies
- Read or distribute materials about forming a union during breaks, meal periods, and before and after work in non-work areas (e.g., break room, cafeteria)
- Sign and/or ask co-workers to sign union cards or petitions during breaks, meal periods, and before and after work. Cards or petitions can be signed anywhere except areas where patients receive treatment (un-less clinic has a preexisting rule that prohibits any solicitation in work areas)
- Attend meetings about the union
- Talk with each other and the public about staffing, pay, benefits, and other conditions at your work clinic
Management Cannot:
- Prohibit workers from talking about the union if you are allowed to talk about other topics
- Ask you whether you support forming a union
- Engage in surveillance of union supporters or activities
- Harass or intimidate workers for supporting a union
- Ask workers to remove union items such as buttons and pens (unless clinic has a preexisting rule that prohibits items in patient care areas that is enforced against all types of items).
- Prohibit workers from sharing information about staffing, pay, benefits, and other conditions at your clinic
- Implement new restrictions designed to interfere with forming a union, such as preventing workers from returning to their workplace on their day off.
- Threaten employees with adverse consequences, such as closing the workplace, loss of benefits, or more onerous working conditions, if they support a union, engage in union activity, or select a union to represent them.
- Promise employees benefits if they reject the union.
