The national labour board is struggling to handle the surge of union filings from movements like those of Amazon and Starbucks workers, due to the fact that their budget has not increased in nine years, meaning that it has decreased by 25%.
As labor uprisings heat up and spread across the country, a group of House Democrats is calling for an increase in budget for the federal labor board, which has been starved of the funding it needs to address the current upswing in labor activity.to the House Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday, asking for a roughly 34 percent boost to the National Labor Relations Board’s budget for fiscal year 2023 and requesting a budget of $368 million at minimum.
by 25 percent in real dollars over the past decade or so. This has caused the overall staffing to shrink by 39 percent and field staffing to be cut in half over the past 20 years, the board says. , the labor board reported that it’s seen a 57 percent increase in union filings and a 14 percent increase in unfair labor practice filings between October 2021 and March 2022.if given the chance , we only expect union election petitions to further increase,” the letter writers said. “With this skyrocketing workload, the NLRB is now responsible for far more workers than a decade ago yet has been denied the funding to meet these statutory requirements.
Increasing the NLRB funding is a step toward “placing the American worker at the heart of the federal budget,” the lawmaker continued.
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