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The year 1935 was a watershed moment for the American Labor Movement.

That was the year Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), formally codifying workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain with their employers. 

In order to protect that right, the NLRA created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a five-member board appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. 

The board is charged with hearing worker complaints and mediating negotiations between labor and management in order to avert a strike where possible. When employers stall or delay recognizing their workers as a union, or when there is an impasse in collective bargaining, it falls to the NLRB – a quasi-judicial entity – to adjudicate. 

The law just marked its 90th anniversary, and for nine decades it has provided unions with vital federal protections.

But as you are likely well aware, the NLRB is far from perfect. When anti-union presidents are in power, they can install board members who are hostile to workers’ needs. Or even worse, a union-busting president could simply choose not to appoint anyone to the board at all, denying it a quorum – the minimum number of members needed to enact decisions – and denying justice for workers. 

For years now, under both Democratic and Republican presidents, the NLRB has been sluggish or even non-responsive when dealing with worker complaints. 

Worse, billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, as well as entities ranging from Starbucks to the University of Southern California, have sued to declare the NLRA unconstitutional, which would effectively shatter the NLRB’s authority if the Supreme Court ruled in plaintiffs’ favor. 

This is why legislation like California Assembly Bill 288 is so important. 

Simply put, AB 288 would make it so that when the federal government is nonresponsive to California private sector union petitions – either unable or unwilling to take them up – the state could step in and adjudicate in the federal government’s stead. 

How would it do so? Through the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). 

Since IRC Dallas staff organized in 2023, they have organized twelve offices across the country. Every day, they serve people who have come to our country seeking refuge and a better life for themselves and their families. They formed their union because they love the work they do, and they believe in the mission of IRC. They can’t effectively carry out that mission without security, stability and the same dignity in the workplace that they give to their clients.

IRC management has consistently delayed and undermined the bargaining process. On June 23rd, over a month after they sent our initial economic package, management gave them a verbal response in the bargaining room that they are all but rejecting their wage proposal in full, and only willing to commit to 2% raises for a small number of staff. Beyond just living wages, management is rejecting or deferring all of the proposals in these workers economic package that are rooted in addressing systemic issues at our workplace that prevent them from delivering the quality of service that their clients need and deserve.

While IRC’s top executives make close to a combined 5 million dollars, many of these workers, the front line workers, have to work second jobs just to make ends meet. This contract is about the fight for their livelihoods, and for the clients who in this moment of unprecedented attacks on the refugee community, need their work now more than ever.

They are calling on our community to stand in solidarity with them–send an email to IRC leadership demanding they stop the delays, stop the union busting, and secure a contract that they and their clients deserve, NOW!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/international-rescue-committee-workers-demand-a-fair-contract-now?source=direct_link&

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