If you or your co-worker want a union to help strengthen your voice on the job, you have the right to make that decision free from interference from your employer. In fact, it is illegal for a Head Start program to use federal funds in any way to influence your decision.
Employers often use fear and intimidation to fight workplace organizing efforts.
They hire high priced, outside union busting firms and distribute anti-union literature to fight unionization. A provision in the Federal Head Start Law requires that Head Start employers remain neutral in union organizing campaigns. What this means is that Head Start workers who want to form a union can do so, and the employer cannot use their federal funds to discourage or try to influence employees' decisions to join or vote for a union in their Head Start center. If HHS finds evidence that a Head Start grantee used funds to block union organizing, the grantee can suffer financial consequences.