Federal law requires labor organizations to comply with all reasonable requests of any candidate to distribute campaign literature, at the candidate’s expense, to members in good standing of the labor organization. The labor organization must refrain from discrimination in favor of or against any candidate with respect to distribution of campaign literature and the use of lists of members.
Candidates who conduct a mailing will work (at their expense) with a bonded mailing house. Mailing labels are never provided directly to a candidate.
Federal law also prohibits candidates for union office from utilizing union or company resources in the conduct of their election campaigns. This means it is inappropriate to campaign on company time or use employer (or union) resources such as paper, copy machines, fax machines, mail or email. Campaign literature should not be posted on union or company bulletin boards.
The prohibition against using employer (or union) resources to promote candidates for union office applies to ALL situations where resources are used to promote a candidate(s), regardless of whether the party using the employer (or union) resource is running for union office.