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Information for Employees

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a non-profit organization providing free legal aid to thousands of employees nationwide whose human and civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses.

About Your Legal Rights

Your Right to Work Rights – In Three Minutes

We know you are busy. If you don’t have time to read through all of the legal information on this site right now, here are the highlights. However, if your job is on the line, be sure to take the time to read the full details about your problem on our website – or contact us for legal aid!

To learn more about your legal rights, please select the category of employment to which you belong:

• Federal Government Employee
• Private Sector Employee
• Public School or College Employee
• Airline/Railway Employee
• State or Local Government Employee
• Charter School Teacher or Employee

NOTICE: This website is intended to provide general information and is not intended to offer legal advice about specific situations or problems. There is no intention to create an attorney-client relationship by offering this information, and anyone’s review of the information shall not be deemed to create such a relationship. You should contact us if you have a legal matter requiring attention that you believe comes within the scope of our charitable legal aid program. Nothing on this site creates an express or implied contract. Moreover, the results of cases depend upon a variety of factors unique to each matter. Past successes in Foundation-supported cases do not predict or guarantee future success.

Briefing and Background Papers

• Deauthorization Election
• Decertification Election
• Decertification under the Railway Labor Act
• Can Union Bosses Punish You? – Union Discipline and Employee Rights
• Public Sector Decertification Laws (as of 3/2019)
• An Employee’s Guide to Union Dues and Religious Do Nots
• Employees in Right to Work States: Beware of Signing Union Dues Check Off Cards
• Big Labor’s Top Ten Special Privileges
• Employees in Right to Work States
• Catholic Social Teaching and the Right to Work (PDF)
• Are You Funding Your Union’s Federal PAC (Political Action Committee) Unknowingly or Against Your Will?

Special Legal Notices

• Special Legal Notice for King Soopers Employees Affected by UFCW Strike
• Setting the Record Straight on Teacher Rights in Rhode Island after Janus v. AFSCME Council 31
• Special Legal Notice to West Virginia Workers
• Special Legal Notice for All Seasonal and Temporary Employees
• Special Legal Notice to Workers in Kentucky
• Special Legal Notice to Private-Sector Workers in Wisconsin
• Special Legal Notice to Most Private-Sector Workers in Michigan
• Special Legal Notice to Most Public-Sector Workers in Michigan
• Special Legal Notice to Most Private-Sector Workers in Indiana
• Special Bulletin for Actors and Actresses
• Special Legal Notice to UAW Big Three Workers: How to Stop All Union Dues and Fees

Special Projects

• Charter School Initiative
• Spotlight on Top-Down Organizing: Big Labor’s War Against Employee Free Choice
• Concerned Educators Against Forced Unionism (CEAFU)
• The Freedom of Conscience Project