Hi Friend,

For years, when workers wanted to raise genuine and deep concerns over working conditions, wage theft, or other issues, employers would wield a worker’s immigration status as a weapon. When workers would try to report violations to the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) or Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) bosses would call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As a result, many workers faced deportation.

It's enough!

Let the Biden administration know that workers need protections so they can report employer violations without fear of immigration-based retaliation!

Even the treat of retaliation stopped far too many workers from justifiably reporting employers’ abuses, but it doesn’t have to be like this. The Biden administration has the tools necessary to protect workers.

Sign the petition and tell the Biden administration to protect workers from immigration-based retaliation!

Right now, the federal government has the tools at its disposal to ensure workers have the protections they need to report employer abuses without fear of retaliation. It’s why we’re calling on President Biden, alongside Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and other federal labor agencies to direct their agencies to do the following:

• Publish guidance on a process for workers and their advocates to access immediate immigration protections.
• Direct that workers at worksites under labor investigation are given a letter outlining their rights, protecting them from interference or intimidation ICE, and enabling them to apply for deferred action or parole with a work permit.
• Ensure that all workers at the company under investigation gain immediate protections from interference or intimidation from ICE. The Department of Labor (DOL), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other labor agencies develop a system so that DHS is immediately notified when a labor complaint is filed with the other agencies.
• Direct that the agencies do outreach to ensure workers know that if they file a complaint, they will be protected from immigration-based retaliation.

Sign the petition and let President Biden, Secretaries Walsh and Mayorkas, and all other federal labor agencies know they must protect workers from immigration-based retaliation right now!

In Solidarity,

Natalie Patrick-Knox

Senior Organizer--Immigration & Workers Rights

Jobs With Justice