Know Your Rights

It is important to know your rights as a worker so that you can't be taken advantage of. Here is a breakdown of what you and your employer can and cannot do legally in the state of Michigan.

Our Legal Labor Rights as Documented & Undocumented Workers:

Join a union

Attend a union meeting on our own time

Talk to a union organizer

Declare ourselves as union supporters

Assist in forming a union

Even if we do not yet have a union, we are allowed to engage in a “concerted effort” with two or more workers to improve our working conditions

Employers are forbidden by law to engage in certain conduct. It is ILLEGAL for our employer to…

Threaten us with discharge or punishment if you engage in union activity

Threaten to shut down business if we form a union

Prevent us from recruiting union members during non-working hours

Question us about union matters, union meetings, or union supporters

Ask whether we belong to a union or have signed up to join a union

Transfer or assign us to a less desirable work assignment because of our union activity

Threaten to terminate our benefits because we unionize

Threaten to lay you off in retaliation for joining a union