Animal Legal Defense Fund Staff Form Union

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Katie Barrows, NPEU, kbarrows@npeu.org, 360-624-6936

COTATI, Calif., Dec. 14, 2020 - The employees of the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) have formed a union with the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). The staff union, ALDF United, has requested voluntary recognition from ALDF management. 

For more than four decades, ALDF has worked to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system. Because ALDF staff members are personally and professionally committed to this mission, they have chosen to form a union. ALDF United will give ALDF staff members a voice in their workplace and build an even stronger and more effective ALDF.

“ALDF United will support ALDF’s ongoing efforts to become an organization and workplace that is anti-racist and more cooperative, equitable, inclusive, just, respectful, and transparent. ALDF United will empower ALDF staff members to do their best work for the animals.” 

“We are proud to welcome ALDF United to NPEU,” said NPEU President Kayla Blado. “ALDF staff care deeply about their work protecting animals, and with their union they will be empowered to do their best work. We look forward to ALDF management recognizing ALDF United in a timely manner.”

About NPEU:

The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, or NPEU, a local of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, represents professionals employed at more than 30 nonprofit organizations (and counting), including employees at Economic Policy Institute, the Center for American Progress, and Community Change. With several hundred members, NPEU gives nonprofit workers a voice to strengthen their workplaces and continue to do work that makes a difference in people’s lives.