Legislative Alert
Letter to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to Oppose a Bill to Deny Rights for Working People Who Work for Tribal Owned and Operated Companies
… Dear Chairman Barrasso, Ranking Member Tester, and Members of the Committee: The AFL-CIO urges you to vote against the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act (S. 248), a bill that 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 …