Watch "The Colbert Report's" take on Kentucky River. (Flash Video)
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and AFL-CIO Organizing Director Stewart Acuff joined hundreds of Tennessee union and civil rights members to protest the recent decision by Bush’s NLRB. (Windows Media)

The Bush-packed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Sept. 29 issued a ruling that potentially takes away the federally protected right to form unions from 8 million nurses, building trades workers, newspaper and television employees and others.

Thousands of union members asked their members of Congress to appeal to the labor board for an opportunity to provide oral arguments. The NLRB, which has not heard oral arguments since the Bush administration took office, denied these requests before issuing its ruling.

News

• AFL-CIO files complaint at United Nations against "Kentucky River" decisions.
• Read AFL-CIO Now blog posts on the Kentucky River cases.
• During the week of July 10, union members took to the streets in a week of action to fight for their right to union membership. See photos of AFL-CIO union movement actions at the NLRB's headquarters and around the country.

Reports

• Read an American Rights at Work press release: Eye on the NLRB.
• Download a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI): Supervisor in Name Only (PDF).
• Read a summary of the EPI report. 
• Download a report by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.): President Bush’s National Labor Relations Board Rolls Back Labor Protections (PDF).

Allied Support

• Read a letter from Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen to NLRB Chair Robert J. Battista on the board's decisions (PDF).
• Download a letter from 30 labor law professors to the NLRB urging the board to hold oral arguments in the Kentucky River cases, which they describe as some of the most important in the 71 years of board jurisprudence (PDF).
• Download a Democratic National Committee press release: Dean Statement on Bush Labor Board Moving to Strip Workers' Rights (PDF).
• Download the amicus briefs filed by the AFL-CIO and its Building and Construction Trades Department on the "Kentucky River" decisions (PDF).