Friend, please join Jobs With Justice this Wednesday, Aug. 14 @ 6 p.m. ET for a virtual Workers’ Rights Board Hearing on the electric vehicle industry in the South.

 

Workers across South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama are ready to speak up about workplace safety, equitable apprenticeship opportunities, thriving wages, democracy at work, and more.

In collaboration with South Carolina Jobs With Justice Solidarity Hub and Jobs With Justice of East Tennessee, this Workers’ Rights Board Hearing will dive deeper into anxieties and solutions from workers who live in communities impacted by the electric vehicle industry boom in the southern United States.

 

Workers like Ryan from South Carolina. He’s witnessed poor training requirements lead to workplace injuries, and fears his peers will be even less prepared for the EV transition without quality training requirements.

 

“I just want to get home to my family, and I want everyone else to get home to their families, too."

Ryan, Freightliner, South Carolina

 

And workers like Yogi in Chattanooga, who recognized her workplace wasn’t providing quality health benefits. So she organized.

 

"I’d been feeling that I have to either go without my medication or go broke which is no choice at all really.

That’s why I organized for a union and that’s why we won!"

Yogi, Volkswagen, Tennessee

 

We hope you’ll join us to hear these powerful testimonies and much more! RSVP here.

 

In Solidarity,

 

Nichel Dunlap-Thompson

Organizer

Jobs With Justice