National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. §151)

• Employees have the right:
  
  • to form, join or assist labor organizations;
    
  • to engage in collective bargaining over wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment;
    
  • to engage in other concerted activity; and
    
  • to refrain from any and all such activity.
    
• Employers cannot discharge or otherwise discriminate against employees for exercising any of their rights or to discourage or encourage union membership.
• Employers cannot dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of labor organizations.
• Employers must bargain in good faith with labor organizations which represent its employees over wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.
  
• Employers cannot discharge or otherwise discriminate against employees for filing unfair labor practice charges.
  
• The National Labor Relations Board will investigate any unfair labor practice charges filed with it alleging that an employer or a union interfered with these rights.
  
• The NLRB also supervises elections to determine whether a majority of an employer's employees wish to have a certain labor organization represent them for purposes of collective bargaining.

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