Legislative Alert
Letter Opposing Three Bills That Assault the Freedom of Working People to Form and Join Unions
… Dear Chair Foxx and Ranking Member Scott: The AFL-CIO urges you to oppose three anti-union bills that will come before the Committee on Education and the Workforce this week. Taken … of any opportunity to balance carefully, on a case-by-case basis, tribal sovereignty interests with workers’ fundamental right to organize a union in situations where these interests may conflict. For example, in San Manuel Indian Bingo & Casino … of sovereignty for tribal governments. This bill, however, would distort this principle in order to squash workers’ right to collective bargaining and freedom of association in every single case where tribal employers seek to cheat their …