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The Importance
of your Vote
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRB) states and defines
the rights of employees to organize and to bargain collectively
with their employers through representatives of their own
choosing or not to do so.
To ensure that employees can freely choose to be or not to
be represented, the ACT establishes a procedure by which the
eligible employees can exercise their choice at a secret-ballot
election conducted by the NLRB.
- Winner is decided by a simple majority. Only those
who show up to vote will have their ballots counted.
- If there are 500 nurses in a unit, only 350 show up to
vote and 200 vote for the union it means that 40% of the
nurses made a decision for all 500 who were eligible to
vote.
- All eligible voters, those who voted and those who did
not, if the union wins will have to become union members in
"good standing".
- If the union wins, they will become representatives to
all - whether you voted or not - to propose and/or make
changes in hours (schedules, overtime, call-ins,
etc.) and terms and conditions of employment that might affect
your personal working life.
- In NLRB elections, you have absolute freedom of choice.
You can vote no even if you
signed a card or participated in union activities. This is a
secret ballot election
and no one will know how you voted.
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