Solidarity Alert: Stand with Animal Legal Defense Fund Employees Organizing with NPEU
Staff at the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), who have a strong supermajority of support for organizing a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union/IFPTE Local 70 (NPEU), are facing an anti-union campaign orchestrated by ALDF management.
In December 2020, ALDF staff approached management seeking voluntary recognition of the union. Two days before Christmas, management refused to recognize the union and went further by hiring the Ogletree Deakins to run an anti-union campaign.
“It’s deeply disappointing that ALDF management would try to crush ALDF’s fledgling union. If management cared for or respected ALDF staff members, they would recognize ALDF United instead of hiring a notoriously anti-worker law firm to suppress the unionizing efforts,” said NPEU President Kayla Blado. “We call on Stephen Wells and the rest of ALDF management to fire Ogletree Deakins and immediately recognize ALDF United.”
“The fact that management has refused to recognize ALDF United, choosing instead to engage a union-busting law firm and utilize classic union-busting tactics like captive audience meetings and intimidation of individual members of the bargaining unit, confirms what we already knew: a union is desperately needed at ALDF,” said the ALDF United organizing committee.