SUPPORT FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

WHEREAS, the American Federation of Teachers has been on record since  1967 supporting National Labor Relations Act coverage for state and local government employees; and

WHEREAS, the National Labor Relations Act has a forty-one year history of guaranteeing the rights of those covered and establishing the most successful system of labor-management relations in the world; and

WHEREAS, no state has yet passed a law that provides teachers and other public employees with the rights they would receive under the NLRA:

RESOLVED, that the AFT strongly support H.R. 777 which has been introduced by Congressman Frank Thompson [D-NJ] to include state and local government under the jurisdiction of the NLRA; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT ask Congress to provide action on this legislation as soon as possible.