Denouncing Attacks On NLRB And Workers’ Rights By Companies

WHEREAS, companies—including Walmart, Amazon, SpaceX and Trader Joe’s—are attempting to neutralize, weaken or destroy the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB); and

WHEREAS, these and other corporations routinely disregard and violate the rights of their employees, including AFT members in healthcare and other industries, and these efforts to weaponize conservative courts against the NLRB represent an alarming escalation in the war against workers; and

WHEREAS, the NLRB is the only federal agency exclusively focused on protecting union members and workers seeking to unionize in the private sector:

RESOLVED, that the AFT will denounce the shameful actions of these and other avaricious elites that derive massive profits from the labor of workers, yet use their unprecedented accumulation of wealth to attack the rights of those same workers; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT will commit to support any and all strategies and tools to protect the NLRB from these illegitimate assaults on worker protections, such as amicus briefing and federal legislation; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT will pursue and advance state-level initiatives and/or legislation to enshrine the rights afforded to workers by the National Labor Relations Act, and state-level enforcement of the same; and

RESOLVED, that the AFT will prepare its members to engage in traditional, militant worker actions, in the event that bad-faith actors return us to the pre-National Labor Relations Board era of the early 1930s.