Legislative Alert
Letter to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in Opposition to Legislation to Take Away the Rights of Working People Who Worker on Tribal Land
… Dear Chair Hoeven and Vice Chair Udall: The AFL-CIO urges you to oppose the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act (S. 63), which would deny protection under the National Labor Relations Act to a large number of workers who are employed by tribal-owned and -operated enterprises located on Indian land. Among these … human rights that belong to every worker in every nation. Workers cannot be left without any legally enforceable right to form unions and bargain collectively in instances where they are working for a tribal enterprise which is simply a …