CWA’s Jennifer Abruzzo Defends Workers in Congressional Hearing

Former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo testified last week before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce. Abruzzo, who currently serves as a Senior Advisor to CWA President Claude Cummings Jr., highlighted the impact of President Trump’s unlawful firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, which leaves the NLRB without enough members to fully function.

“Who is benefitting from this dysfunction? Not workers, but employers, who may feel emboldened to violate the law with impunity and retaliate against their workers who are unionizing or otherwise acting together to make their work lives better, because there is no functioning Board to hold them accountable for lawbreaking activity. So, at the same time that billionaires and corporations are pushing for more tax cuts at the expense of working families, they are trying to silence their workers. This is a travesty. Corporate billionaires and CEOs are getting rich off the backs of their employees. The ones that should get more money, benefits, protections, and tax breaks are workers and their families.”

Abruzzo elaborated on what having a dysfunctional NLRB means for workers in an exchange with California Rep. Mark Takano that you can view here.

Watch her full testimony here.

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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.