What An Authorization Card Looks Like.

This is what an Authorization Card from Local 222 looks like.  If you take the time to read it, you will find that your legal rights to Organize, as granted by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), are listed.  Then you will find a list of tactics your employer is prohibited from engaging in.  The  actual authorization part is at the bottom of the card; this is what an employee interested in organizing signs.  This card has the necessary information to verify whether the person signing it is a legitimate employee.  The cards, once collected, are sent to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal body of oversight, who then receives a list of eligible employees.  The names and information on the cards are compared to the list of employees to verify they are, in fact, employees.  At the end of the campaign, the cards are returned to the Local Union.  The Company will never see these cards.  Unless you, as a card signer, choose to tell your employer that you signed a card, your employer will never know who signed a card.
What you will not find on this card is any financial commitments.  No binding contract to cause the signer to pay dues, nor pay initiation fees, nor be in anyway liable for costs incurred by the Local Union in the organizing effort.  There is no legal mumbo jumbo that could ever be used to sue anyone who signs the card.  All the cards does is authorize Local 222 to represent the signer in collective bargaining.
Here are a few links to the NLRB website:
For the organizing process.  (Check the bottom of this page for Representation Election Process)

For your rights.




We are comfortable sending you to where you can find facts regarding these Authorization Cards because we have no interest in misleading people.  The card does nothing more that fulfill the first pre-petition step of obtaining an initial showing of interest.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Teamsters Local Union 222 at 801.972.1898 and ask for Britt, ext. 17.