rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/nelpunion?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-nelpunion' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> UAW Local 2320 - NOLSW https://actionnetwork.org/groups/uaw-local-2320-nolsw https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/437/998/normal/nelp_staff_association.png What happened? The National Employment Law Project (NELP), the country’s leading workers’ rights policy advocacy nonprofit, reduced its staff union from 33 members to 8–close to 80%–following a budget shortfall. These layoffs have devastated the NELP Staff Association, a unit of NOLSW/UAW Local 2320. Many of the employees which have been impacted by voluntary and involuntary layoffs are over 50 and have worked at NELP for more than a decade. All of us have contributed years of valuable education and experience to the organization’s mission of guaranteeing expansive rights for all workers. These layoffs follow months of attempted union-busting by management as we bargain for a successor contract. We had to withdraw our pending unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board in order to secure better terms for voluntary and involuntary separations. What now? We have unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in NELP’s executive team, as led by the organization’s president and chief executive officer Rebecca Dixon. Please stand with our union and send a message calling on Rebecca Dixon and members of NELP’s board to live by NELP’s stated values and respect worker voice, collective bargaining rights, and basic economic security for its own workers. Our demands? With the resignation of Rebecca Dixon and Melissa Matos, we demand: That interim leadership be appointed. That the current Board be replaced. That an independent committee reassess the financial situation. We are also asking for: The reinstatement of six involuntarily laid off union members. Shared sacrifice from management, including pay cuts. Unit protections in the CBA: inlcuding stonger layoff provisions, a definition of bargaining unit work, triggering bargaining, language on AI & surveillance, transparency and communication which allow for staff input, and a Labor Management Committee. HELP US AND SEND NELP MANAGEMENT A MESSAGE! Follow the NELP Staff Association on Medium, Bluesky, and Instagram for updates on our campaign.   https://actionnetwork.org/letters/nelpunion