Employee Rights
The National Labor Relations Act extends rights to
many private-sector employees including the right to organize and bargain
with their employer collectively. Employees covered by the Act are protected
from certain types of employer and union misconduct and have the right to
attempt to form a union where none currently exists.
The NLRA forbids employers from interfering with,
restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of rights relating to
organizing, forming, joining or assisting a labor organization for
collective bargaining purposes, or engaging in protected concerted
activities, or refraining from any such activity. Similarly, labor
organizations may not restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of these
rights.
