What they can promise you in writing is job protection. In the State of North Carolina a employee with out a contract can be fired for any reason with or with out cause what so ever. Period....(sex,race,creed,religion,other EEOC is exempt) And when they fire you all you can do is gone home and tell your family. You have NO LEGAL RIGHT to do anything about it. NLRB or no one can help you at all. It is the END. There is NO laws on the books in North Carolina to help you at all. You are just gone. They don't even have to give you a reason. There is no law to help you also on that. BUT!!!!! with a contract it ain't over at all. That is what signing a card can promise you. And of course it would be in writing in you contract. And that is the "NO SPIN TRUTH" I watch O'Rielly all the time.......:)