An employer pressures an employee to stop engaging with their trade union, claiming it causes problems.
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The Situation
What They Said
“Stop going to the union — it is causing problems for everyone.”
Said by a manager or employer to an employee who has been consulting their trade union or participating in union activities.
The Fallacy
Appeal to Consequences / Intimidation
The employer frames the employee's lawful union activity as a problem it creates for others, creating social pressure and guilt to discourage exercise of a fundamental right. The claim that union engagement 'causes problems' conflates the employer's discomfort with legitimate harm. The logical error is treating the employer's displeasure as equivalent to wrongdoing by the employee.
What the Law Says
Your Legal Foundation
Ley de Contrato de Trabajo 20.744
art. 47 de la Ley de Contrato de Trabajo — Prohibition of anti-union discrimination
“Article 47. Team contract. Integration. When the contract is formalized with the modality provided for in the...”
This article does not address union activities or employer restrictions on them. Therefore, the employer's statement has no legal basis under this provision.
What Scripture Says
God's Word on This
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NET)
“Two people are better than one, because they can reap more benefit from their labor. For if they fall, one will help his companion up, but pity the person who falls down and has no one to help him up.”
Workers banding together in a union reflects this wisdom — collective strength protects the individual who might otherwise fall with no one to help.
Amos 5:15 (NET)
“Hate what is wrong, love what is right, and maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God of Heaven's Armies will be merciful to the remnant of Joseph.”
Maintaining justice includes protecting workers' right to organise — silencing that voice is an attack on justice itself.
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You Know the Law — But Do You Know What to Say?
Reading your rights is one thing. Using them under pressure — calmly, correctly, in the right words — is what actually protects you. Members get the scripted rebuttal for this exact situation: what to say first, what to say if they push back, the tone to use, and the constitutional provision to cite. Practise out loud with audio until it's automatic.