The Honorable Charles Schumer
The Honorable Patrick Leahy
United States Senate
Washington, D.C., 20510

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
United States House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Leahy, and Chair DeLauro:

As organizations committed to workers’ rights, civil rights, and the ongoing ability of working people to organize into unions, we call on you to address the urgent funding crisis facing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by increasing agency funding before the end of the year to $368 million dollars.

Over the last nine years, Congress has passed legislation to fund the government but has done so without once raising the amount of funding allocated to the NLRB. Because of inflation, this has amounted to a budget decrease of 25 percent in real dollars, adjusted for inflation. This is untenable. The agency is now in dire financial straits, unable to efficiently carry out its basic functions, including timely processing of union representation petitions, union elections, and investigating and prosecuting unfair labor practices and similar work.

At the same time as the agency is experiencing a financial crisis, it is also facing a wave of case intakes. Last month, the Board reported the largest single-year increase (from 2021 to 2022) of ULP and representation petitions since FY1976 and the largest percentage increase since FY1959. This matches the massive energy from workers...

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