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A little more than that even. They have the right to participate in concerted activities. But those activities must usually be performed in a way that would not impact the business during working hours. Unionization and voting etc must usually be performed off-site.



> Unionization and voting etc must usually be performed off-site.

Sounds like a non profit startup opportunity, to provide tools to empower workers to unionize and vote remotely. With remote normalizing, as long as you stay off corp gear (stay off corp gear for any activities not directly related to your employment!), your employer isn't going to know you're working towards organizing, preventing them from interfering with your organizing activities (which does them a favor, considering that's illegal under US labor law).


Unit [ https://unitworkers.com/about ] is interested in helping establish small, locally-run unions.




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