Friend,
When we join together to tackle our biggest challenges, We the People can’t be stopped.
In the past few months, our country has hit a crisis point. Millions of Americans are out of work. The pandemic death toll grows every day.
So far, solutions have been limited. All we’ve seen is a one-time stimulus check (which many didn’t receive in the first place) all while CEOs pocketed multi-million dollar bailouts and laid off their workers. Working people have been left behind as a GOP-controlled U.S. Senate sat on its hands, and the rich profited off the chaos.
If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that working people uniting for collective power is the only way out of this.
We can do this in two key ways RIGHT NOW:
1. Holding lawmakers accountable for relief
Early on in the pandemic, the additional emergency $600 in unemployment insurance helped working families keep the lights on after they suddenly lost their jobs. But since it expired, 8 million people have fallen into poverty. While some companies have reaped record profits, they haven’t shared them with their frontline workers. Many workers haven’t seen that growth reflected in hazard pay or wage increases. On top of it all, state and local public services are running low on funds and are facing cuts to essential jobs like sanitation and emergency medical workers.
There’s a bill sitting in the U.S. Senate right now that would address all those issues and more: it’s called the HEROES Act. Your voice is needed to move the bill forward. Tell your senator that we need action NOW.
2. Organizing our workplaces to protect ourselves, our families and our communities
This public health crisis has shown people around the country how critical it is for workers to have a voice at work through a union. From lowering mortality rates in nursing homes, securing paid sick leave for union members and fighting to protect ALL workers during the pandemic, unions have been on our side throughout the pandemic. And union members will be critical for rebuilding our economy after the virus is eradicated. When pink slips were being handed out, many workers felt helpless. And when essential workers were asked to handle dangerous and difficult new conditions, many felt they didn’t have a voice on the job.
That’s where the PRO Act comes in. Every worker deserves the right and freedom to join together with their co-workers to negotiate better wages, safer working conditions and more respect. The PRO Act will make it easier for us to join together to build power in our workplaces. Tell your senator to vote YES on the PRO Act.
Things are still hard — and the next few months might be even tougher. It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of a raging pandemic and financial insecurity, but we can’t lose faith. We can (and will) build a better world together and make it out of this.
Take the first step by taking action on the HEROES Act and the PRO Act and sharing so others can too. The election is over, now the real work begins. Remember: We’re in this together.
In solidarity,
Sydney Roberts
Working America
815 16th St. NW | Washington, D.C. 20006 | (202) 637-5137
