Your Rights To Organize
Under the Law
Through the 1935 National Labor Relations Act employees have the legal right to form a union in their workplace, engage in collective action around work issues, and it bars employers from anti-union and anti-organizing retaliation ranging from asking what your opinion on your union is all the way to threatening, harassing, disciplining, transfering, and a wide range of other behaviors intended to curb organizing.
We believe that the right to engage in "concerted collective activity" (labor law jargon for workplace organizing) covers not just organizing around wages, conditions, and hours, but also the ethical use of our labor, diversity and inclusion, and so much more.
Through Organizing
Despite the vast majority of workers having the federally protected right to organize, we know that labor law in the US is far from perfect and it fails to cover independent contractors and others. Yet, we know through experience that our greatest protections stem from our collective strength and solidarity when we are organized together.
In fact, union organizing was explicitly illegal for huge periods of time for nearly the entire working class, and yet workers organized, built their unions, and engaged in struggle all the same!
It was only amidst a period of intense labor struggles and union power such that the ruling class was genuinely worried about worker uprisings that they finally "granted" workers bare minimum rights on the job and in organizing.
The point is this: struggle shapes the law, not the other way around.