Essential workers, including domestic workers, factory workers, state and local government employees, janitorial staff, and utility workers, are risking their lives every day so others can stay home. To protect them, Congress must require companies to provide the personal protective equipment and supplies necessary for them to do their jobs safely. And companies that don't comply should be held accountable.

Dear MoveOn member,

Right now, a lot of us have to stay home—but we don't have to stay quiet. 

Across the country, workers are on the front lines against the coronavirus pandemic—protecting our health and saving our lives, keeping the economy running, providing food for millions, and allowing people to stay safe as they stay home.

Our nation has a responsibility to ensure that these essential workers have the protections they need, the rights they are entitled to, and the compensation they deserve.

Sign here to demand Congress pass an Essential Workers Bill of Rights.

Essential workers, including domestic workers, factory workers, state and local government employees, janitorial staff, and utility workers, are risking their lives every day so others can stay home. To protect them, Congress must require companies to provide the personal protective equipment and supplies necessary for them to do their jobs safely. And companies that don't comply should be held accountable.

What's happening to the frontline workers right now is outrageous and heartbreaking: Nurses are wearing garbage bags to protect themselves. Bus drivers are dying. Farm workers are facing pay cuts. 

We must not only protect essential workers' health but provide them with a livable wage with robust premium pay, defend their right to vote to unionize and speak out, guarantee them paid sick and family leave, and expand their access to reliable, safe, high-quality child care.  

Representative Ro Khanna and I put forward a full proposal with 10 principles for supporting essential workers. Congress must include these provisions in its next relief bill, because time is of the essence. We’ve seen how delays implementing the advice of health experts on coronavirus can be deadly.  

Add your name in support of providing essential workers with health protections, robust premium pay, collective bargaining protections, and relief during the coronavirus pandemic.

The economy has been rigged against working people by the ultra wealthy for far too long. The reforms we pass now will lay a foundation for how we treat all workers in the future and grow the economy from the grassroots up.  

So it is time for us to get really loud. Although we can't be together in person, we can still use our voices—by signing petitions, making calls to Congress, caring for each other, and fighting for what we believe in. 

Raise your voice by signing the petition calling on Congress to pass an Essential Workers Bill of Rights. 

Thanks for being a part of this.

–Elizabeth

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