know your rights
As Registered Nurses, we have the right to:
Form, join or discuss our Union with our coworkers.
Organize a Union to negotiate with the employer over our terms and conditions of employment, including making improvements at work.
Distribute union literature, wear union stickers, pins, or other materials (except in unusual “special circumstances”).
Ask our coworkers to sign Union authorization cards and show support for our union.
By law, hospital administration CANNOT:
Prohibit us from talking about our Union if we are allowed to talk about other topics, such as birthdays, kids, or the weather.
Ask us whether or not we support forming a Union.
Engage in surveillance of Union supporters or activities.
Harass or intimidate us for supporting a Union.
Ask us to remove Union items like stickers and pens
Prohibit us from sharing information about staffing, pay, benefits and other conditions at the hospital.
Implement new restrictions designed to interfere with forming our union, such as preventing us from returning to the hospital on our day off.
