Corporate America wants to stop the NLRB from protecting workers who stand up for their rights at work. Join the fight for a fully functioning NLRB.
The National Labor Relations Board enforces the National Labor Relations Act, the principal law safeguarding your right to organize to improve your working conditions, whether or not you are in a union. Workers turn to the NLRB when they are illegally fired or otherwise prevented from working together for change.
The NLRB is supposed to have five members that are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. But corporations have persuaded Republicans in the Senate to use silent filibusters to prevent a vote on President Obama's nominees. The Board needs at least three members to make decisions. Two of the five seats on the NLRB are currenly vacant and the term of another member will expire in August.
Working people need and deserve a functioning National Labor Relations Board. The President has sent the names of five well-qualified nominees to the Senate. If we don't let our Senators know that the NLRB matters, Senate Republicans will continue to abuse the Senate rules and filibuster the nominees and Senate Democrats will not take action to overcome the filibuster.
May 8, 2013
Holli Thomas had a simple request. She wanted to know if the Bettie Page store where she worked in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood could close an hour earlier than its normal 8 p.m. closing time. Read More
Apr 24, 2013
Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1120, a bill to shut down the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and stop workers from organizing for higher wages. Read More
Apr 24, 2013
Congress essentially told working Americans to drop dead. House Republicans pushed through a dangerous bill that would paralyze the National Labor Relations Board, blocking the only path that workers have to workplace justice. Read More
Apr 18, 2013
Last Friday, House Republicans pushed through H.R. 1120, a bill that would essentially shut down the National Labor Relations Board. Piling on a recent Court of Appeals ruling challenging the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB, the legislation seeks to freeze all NLRB activities that requires a quorum of board members. It would also bar the NLRB from enforcing any decisions it has made since Jan. 4, 2012, when Obama made those disputed recess appointments. Read More
Apr 12, 2013
The Communications Workers of America strongly condemns the passage of H.R. 1120, Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act, in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation is the latest example of an all-out assault by many Republicans on the National Labor Relations Board and on basic worker protections. Read More
