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Government Agency
Also see National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Legislation) The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency consisting of a five-member Board appointed by the President with (by convention) three members of the President’s party and two members of the opposition party and a nominally independent General Counsel
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For-profit
BerlinRosen (also styled Berlin Rosen) is a for-profit public relations and campaign communications consulting firm headquartered in New York City that works for Democratic campaigns, progressive nonprofit organizations, and labor unions, with a focus on New York. Founded in 2005 by former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Non-profit
New York Communities for Change (NYCC) is a New York City-based labor and community organizing group. NYCC is a key agitation force behind the Service Employees International Union’s (SEIU) “Fight for $15” union organizing efforts, and has received over $7 million from SEIU and its local unions alone
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Non-profit
The Working Families Organization, founded in 2006, is the 501(c)(4) affiliate of the Working Families Party, a union-funded and union-aligned far-left political party1 with power centers in traditionally hard-left localities and states, such as
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Other Group
The Patriotic Millionaires is a group of Americans who earn more than $1 million per year and advocate for left-wing economic policies. They were organized by longtime Democratic and left-wing strategist Erica Payne with help from trial lawyer and major Democratic donor Guy Saperstein in 2010, who recruited
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Non-profit
Note: USAction is no longer in operation and merged to form People’s Action in 2016 USAction was a left-of-center advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. The group was created by activist Heather Booth in 1999 as a successor to the scandal-ridden consumer advocacy group Citizen Action, which
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Non-profit
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC or ROC-United) is one of the nation’s most prominent “worker centers,” labor-union-like organizations backed by union organizing know-how and left-of-center foundation funding. An outgrowth of a mutual-aid organization for the surviving unionized employees of the Windows on the World restaurant destroyed in the September 11th
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Political Party/527
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a left-wing political party based in Brooklyn, New York. Using New York’s electoral fusion voting system that allows multiple parties to nominate candidates and pool votes cast, the WFP uses its endorsement and ballot line to pressure Democratic Party candidates to take union-friendly stands
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Labor Union
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is one of America’s largest, most controversial, and most politically involved labor unions. The SEIU, which represents building services employees, nurses, other healthcare workers, and public employees, is noted for its close ties to the broader left-of-center movement, perhaps most notably the controversial now-defunct
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Non-profit
National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a New York City-based think tank which advocates for liberal labor and employment legislation. The union-backed group, formed in 1974, advocates for steep increases in the minimum wage and other restrictions on employers.
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Non-profit
The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is a left-of-center 501(c)(3) organization involved in voter mobilization and policy development. The center’s stated mission is “to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.” CPD has opposed the use of zero carbon
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Other Group
Youth vs. Apocalypse (YVA) is a left-of-center climate activist organization. It mobilizes young people to protest the conventional energy industry in the name of fighting climate change. It also focuses on the alleged impact of climate change on racial justice.
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Non-profit
New York Focus is a New York State-focused online newspaper that was founded in the fall of 2020. It focuses its reporting on climate change, state politics, and criminal justice issues.
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Non-profit
The Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA) was founded in 2001 by civil rights activists who claimed that there was a rise in anti-Muslim discrimination and hate crimes after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A major point of contention for MLFA was the 2002 creation of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration
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Non-profit
Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is a movement of American Jews promoting left-of-center climate policy that was organized in 2020. Dayenu organized get-out-the-vote campaigns in key states in 2020 and 2022 and conducts political organizing through more than 100 Dayenu Circles, small groups of activists throughout the country.
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Non-profit
New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) is a left-of-center environmentalist legal advocacy group founded in 1987 that specializes in air, water, and land environmentalist issues in the state.
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Other Group
The Organization for Black Struggle is a critical race theory-aligned, self-described “radical” Black Liberation movement organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, that supports reparations for slavery and affirmative action. 1 Background Organization for
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Non-profit
Until We Are All Free (UWAAF) is a Minnesota-based organization that promotes left-of-center criminal justice policies. The organization is led by individuals who were formerly incarcerated and supports current inmates and those who have been recently released by providing a stipend for materials in prison, connecting former inmates to jobs
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Other Group
Hate is a Virus is a fiscally sponsored project of the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation devoted to combatting anti-Asian prejudice inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group gives grants to Asian-American organizations, and has given out nearly $1 million since its founding. Founding Hate is a Virus originated as a
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Non-profit
Florida Rising is a left-of-center advocacy group headquartered in Miami, Florida, that advocates for a variety of left-of-center economic and social policy stances with an emphasis on criminal justice and environmental policy. The group lobbies the Florida legislature and publishes an annual legislative agenda while also conducting voter outreach and
