Answer the true or false questions below to test your knowledge of your Weingarten Rights:

1. Weingarten rights provide for an employee, upon request, to have union representation for any meeting with a supervisor?

 True                     False

2. In order to exercise one's Weingarten rights, the employee must initiate the request for representation at disciplinary investigatory interview?

 
True                     False   

3. A unit representative who attends an investigatory interview is not allowed to speak or participate in any way?

True                     False

 

4. When a manager presents a disciplinary warning or suspension to an employee, Weingarten representation rights do not apply.

True                     False

5. Once an investigatory interview begins, it is too late to request union representation.

True                     False

6. Weingarten rights apply during telephone investigatory interviews.

True                     False

7. Weingarten rights apply to employee locker searches at the worksite.

True                     False

8. An employee has a right to insist on having an attorney present at an investigatory interview.

True                     False

9. The unit representative at an investigatory interview has no right to be informed by management about the subject matter of the meeting nor about the misconduct being investigated.

True                     False

10. Weingarten rights have been in place since the National Labor Relations Act was implemented in 1935.

True                     False

11. An employee who requests union representation during an investigatory interview and is denied such by the employer does not have to participate in that interview.

True                     False

12. It is always fairly clear when an employee should request their Weingarten rights for union representation?

True                     False

13. Shop Stewards/ Union Representatives are not entitled to union representation during investigatory interviews because of their union office.

True                     False

14. Polygraph tests are not covered by Weingarten rights.

True                     False

15. An employee who is being interviewed about potential theft involving another employee is not entitled to union representation.

True                     False

16. The employee has the right to have the unit representative of his/ her own choice at the meeting.

True                     False

17. Weingarten rights apply to group meetings when management confronts more than one employee at a time.

True                     False

18. The unit representative should advise the employee being questioned to be as evasive and as non-participatory as possible during the meeting.

True                     False