On May Day 2026, the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) stands with workers, their families, and the advocates who fight for them. With plaintiffs’ employment lawyer members in almost every state, NELA has spent four decades empowering those who defend workers’ rights. That mission has never been more urgent.

The workers our members represent are the people who make this country run: nurses and warehouse workers, teachers and farmworkers, federal employees facing mass termination, immigrant workers living under the threat of deportation, and those in every industry who depend on the rights to be free from discrimination, harassment, wage theft, retaliation, and unsafe conditions in their workplaces.

The attacks on working people, on the institutions built to protect them, and on the advocates who refuse to stand down are part of a continuing and escalating assault on our democracy and the rule of law. The lawyers and organizations who stand with workers are being targeted and silenced. NELA will not be silent, and neither will our members.

Justice in the workplace is not a privilege—it is a right worth fighting for. On this May Day, NELA calls on every organization and individual committed to fairness, equality, and the rule of law to stand with workers and their advocates. We must not, and we will not, stop fighting.