The Right to Organize

Under the Railway Labor Act, it is illegal for a carrier to:

• Interfere with employees’ right to organize or to remain unorganized
• Interfere with employees’ rights to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing
• Interfere with the right of a majority of any craft or class to select the representative of that craft or class
• Terminate or discipline an employee because of his/her union activities
• Offer employees improved benefits or other preferential treatment that are intended to undermine union organizing
• Support “company unionism”
• Prohibit the wearing of union insignia during an organizing drive
• Interrogate employees to learn of union activities
• Engage in surveillance to learn of union activities
• Require job applicants to sign any contract or agreements promising to join or not to join a labor organization