Join Us - Organize Your Workplace

Forming a union in your workplace gives you and your coworkers the right to negotiate as a group with your employer over wages, benefits, working conditions, as well as issues that may be specific to your workplace.

Your Voice. Your Rights. Your Union Contract.

A union contract protects your rights by putting workplace agreements in writing. With IUOE Local 101, you gain a voice in decisions that impact your job, safety, and future.

If you’re interested in organizing or want more information, connect with our Workforce Development or Stationary Representatives, or fill out the form below. We’re here to help you pursue fairness and better conditions at work.

Your privacy is important to us. All conversations are kept strictly confidential and handled with care.*

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All conversations with IUOE Local 101 are confidential and handled with the utmost care and discretion.

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To get started, complete the form to authorize IUOE Local 101 to represent you. You will be contacted by an IUOE 101 representative after completing the form below.

Your Rights Under the Law

NLRA Section 7:
“Employees shall have the right to self-organize, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to obtain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection…”.

What this means:

Employees have the legal right to help organize, to join and to support a union of their own choosing. This includes activities such as signing a union card, getting others to sign cards, attending union meetings, wearing union buttons, passing out union literature and talking about a union to other employees.
Employees have the legal right to join together and work as a team in order to help each other.
It says that employees have the legal right to deal with their employer as a group, rather than individually.

Download the full PDF to learn more about your rights and what union protection really means for you.

Federal Law Protects You

NLRA Section 8:
“(a) It shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer (1) To interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7; (3) By discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any labor organization … ”

What this means:

It means that employees are supposed to have a FREE CHOICE in deciding whether or not they want to use their right to organize. Anything that an employer does to interfere with this free choice is against the law.
It means that employers who get ‘nose trouble’ during an organizing campaign are breaking the law. An employer is not supposed to question employees, or even to find out, how employees feel, who signed cards, which employees are pushing the union, who attended meetings, what went on at meetings, etc. It is none of their business.
It means that an employer is not supposed to make any promise of raises, promotions or other benefits in order to influence employees in the exercise of their rights.

Get the full PDF to explore your rights and how union protection works.

What Your Employer Can’t Legally Do

Under the National Labor Relations Act, you have the right to organize, form or join a union, and speak up for better wages, benefits, and working conditions, free from interference or intimidation.

Your employer cannot legally:

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Join Us - Organize Your Workplace

Your Voice. Your Rights. Your Union Contract.

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Your Rights Under the Law

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Federal Law Protects You

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What Your Employer Can’t Legally Do

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