Join us on June 20 at 5:30 p.m. for the 8th annual American Rights at Work Awards Celebration as we honor those who follow Eleanor Roosevelt’s powerful example of championing workers’ rights as human rights.

This year's honorees include:

DeMaurice Smith, Executive Director of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), for his savvy representation of the players during the 2011 NFL lockout, and for his vocal, ongoing commitment to lifting up the value of unions for workers everywhere.

Bill Street and Per-Olof Sjöö for their strategic campaign of solidarity to support IKEA workers’ winning effort to secure a voice on the job. This innovative, international fight spanned social media to Swedish media to prove workers remain committed to unions in this economy.

The program will also include special guest and featured speaker Wilma Liebman, Former Chair, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

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Washington, D.C. – Today, American Rights at Work Executive Director Kimberly Freeman Brown called on National Labor Relations Board member Terence Flynn, who is under investigation by the Inspector General for unethical and possibly criminal behavior, to resign immediately.

Said Freeman Brown:

"The latest report from the Inspector General asserts that National Labor Relations Board member Terence Flynn, as counsel to the Board, not only knowingly shared confidential information with the Romney campaign, but it appears he did so in the hopes of getting nominated to the Board himself—a quid pro quo that elevates his actions from an ethical and legal breach to a potentially criminal one.

That’s why Members of Congress, workers’ rights advocates, and others are right to call for Flynn’s immediate resignation and for a full investigation by Congress.

“America’s workers need a National Labor Relations Board that administers and enforces federal labor law by remaining independent and impartial. There is no place for the type of criminal conduct alleged in the Inspector General’s report. Those who break the laws that they took an oath to uphold must be held accountable.”

Washington, D.C. – In December, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a rule designed to cut back on the delays and red tape that often prevent employees from having a fair vote on whether to form a union. Today right-wing legislators made an unsuccessful attempt to overturn the rule with S.J. Res. 36, which the Senate rejected by a vote of 45–54.

In response, American Rights at Work Executive Director Kimberly Freeman Brown issued the following statement:

"The NLRB's rule helps ensure that workers have a fair vote by cutting back on opportunities for companies to manipulate the election process with delays and frivolous litigation. But corporate-backed politicians in Congress attempted to reverse this modest progress for workers, in yet another display of their flagrant disregard for our nation's middle class.

This resolution would have made it even harder for workers to get a simple up-or-down vote on forming a union by enabling law-breaking employers to pursue costly delays and litigation in their attempts to avoid respecting their workers’ choice to form unions.
 
Today's divisive effort was the latest in a relentless series of attacks on the NLRB by extremist legislators who would rather dismantle protections for everyday Americans than work to create jobs and balance in our economy. Thankfully, common sense prevailed, and a majority in the Senate affirmed the need for more safeguards for workers, and not Big Business."