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About Your Legal Rights: Private Sector Employee

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation defends America's workers against the abuses of compulsory unionism. To learn your rights as a private sector employee, click on any of the following questions:

Questions & Answers

  • Can I be required to be a union member or pay dues to a union? [1]
  • If I work in a Right to Work state, can I resign my union membership and cut off any further dues collections from my salary? [2]
  • How can I resign my union membership? [3]
  • How do I cut off the use of my dues for politics and other nonbargaining activities? [4]
  • If I do not live in a Right to Work State, how can I stop paying all union dues? [5]
  • What if I have religious objections to joining or financially supporting a union? [6]
  • What if I am a victim of union violence? [7]
  • What if I want to work during a strike? [8]
  • If I believe my rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses, can I file my own unfair labor practice charges against the union or the employer at the National Labor Relations Board? [9]
  • What are my rights if the union is conducting a "Card Check" organizing drive at my workplace? [10]

Legal Notices

  • Special Legal Notice to Employees Represented by the Machinists union (IAM) or the Transportation Communications Union (TCU) -- Reduce your dues by about 20% [11]
  • Special Bulletin for Private-sector Workers Subjected to Top Down Organizing "Neutrality Agreements" [12]
  • Special Bulletin for Actors and Actresses [13]

Issue Briefing Papers

  • Decertification Election [14]
  • Deauthorization Election [15]
  • Big Labor's Massive Political Machine [16]
  • Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges [17]
  • The tip of the iceberg: PACs & The Forced-dues Base of Big Labor's Political Machine [18]
  • An Employee's Guide to Union Dues and Religious Do Nots [19]
  • Can Union Bosses Punish You" - Union Discipline and Employee Rights [20]
  • Legal Analysis of Nebraska Legislative Bill 226 [21]
  • Are You Funding Your Union’s Federal PAC (Political Action Committee) Unknowingly or Against Your Will? [22]
  • Union Bosses Richer After Campaign "Reform": The Impact of Initiative 134 in Washington State [23]
  • Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Work [24]
  • Employees in Right to Work States [25]
  • Policy Analysis: The Permissible Use of Forced Union Dues From Hanson to Beck [26]

Projects

  • Spotlight on Top Down Organizing: Big Labor's War Against Employee Free Choice [27]
  • Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU) [28]
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Links:
[1] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_1_p.htm
[2] http://www.nrtw.org/a/RTWresignIntro.htm
[3] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_3_p.htm
[4] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_4_p.htm
[5] http://www.nrtw.org/d/deauth.htm
[6] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_5_p.htm
[7] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_6.htm
[8] http://www.nrtw.org/a/a_7_p.htm
[9] http://www.nrtw.org/a/nlrbcharges.htm
[10] http://www.nrtw.org/faq/what-are-my-rights-if-union-conducting-card-check-organizing-drive-my-workplace
[11] http://www.nrtw.org/en/press/2009/11/special-legal-notice-employees-represented-machinists-union-iam-reduce-your-dues-about
[12] http://www.nrtw.org/neutrality
[13] http://www.nrtw.org/d/sag_aftra_strike.htm
[14] http://www.nrtw.org/d/decert.htm
[15] http://www.nrtw.org/d/deauth.htm
[16] http://www.nrtw.org/d/political_spending.htm
[17] http://www.nrtw.org/d/big_labor_special_privileges.htm
[18] http://www.sbe.csuhayward.edu/~sbesc/tipoftheiceberg.html
[19] http://www.nrtw.org/ro1.htm
[20] http://www.nrtw.org/RDA.htm
[21] http://www.nrtw.org/d/ne226.pdf
[22] http://www.nrtw.org/d/illegalpac.htm
[23] http://www.nrtw.org/d/I134.htm
[24] http://www.nrtw.org/a/Catholic.pdf
[25] http://www.nrtw.org/d/rtwempl.htm
[26] http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-174.html
[27] http://www.nrtw.org/neutrality
[28] http://www.nrtw.org/ceafu