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:
Legal Notices
- Special Legal Notice to West Virginia Workers
- Special Legal Notice to Most Private-Sector Workers in Michigan
- Special Legal Notice to Most Private-Sector Workers in Indiana
Questions & Answers
- Can I be required to be a union member or pay dues to a union?
- 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?
- How can I resign my union membership?
- How do I eliminate the union from my workplace?
- How do I cut off the use of my dues for politics and other nonbargaining activities?
- If I do not live in a Right to Work State, how can I stop paying all union dues?
- What if I have religious objections to joining or financially supporting a union?
- What if I am a victim of union violence?
- What if I want to work during a strike?
- 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?
- What are my rights if the union is conducting a “Card Check” organizing drive at my workplace?
- What are my rights if I must obtain work through a union hiring hall?
- What do I need to know if there is a National Labor Relations Board election in my workplace on whether to be represented by a union?
Issue Briefing Papers
- Decertification Election
- Deauthorization Election
- Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges
- An Employee’s Guide to Union Dues and Religious Do Nots
- Can Union Bosses Punish You? – Union Discipline and Employee Rights
- Are You Funding Your Union’s Federal PAC (Political Action Committee) Unknowingly or Against Your Will?
- Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Work (PDF)
- Employees in Right to Work States
