Representation

First, KEYTA is a professional teachers association, not a union. Teacher unions have exclusive rights, by law, to be the only union bargaining on the employees’ behalf. We are not a competing union, and therefore are not excluded from being in a school district establishment. Pennsylvania law states that you cannot have a competing union on the grounds where one union has been established. Pennsylvania laws make no such mention of multiple teacher associations in on establishment.

In the landmark decision of National Labor Relations Board v. Weingarten, 420 U.S. 251 (1975), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the National Labor Relations Act provides a statutory right to members of a bargaining unit to insist on having a representative present at an investigatory interview in which the employee reasonably believes that it could lead to disciplinary action. For this Weingarten right to apply, an employee must have a reasonable belief that he or she will be subject to discipline at or as a result of the meeting.