OUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MUST PROTECT THE HEALTH AND RIGHTS OF WORKERS
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
It’s clearly up to Congress to protect workers, their families and the public. I am asking the Senator to ensure that the next relief bill has protections for workers including necessary PPE, safe workspaces, access to paid leave, health care and unemployment payments. States must be kept solvent, and businesses must have accountability. I am also asking him to actively support the Every Worker Protection Act. Thank you.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
It’s clearly up to Congress to protect workers, their families and the public. I am asking the Representative to ensure that the next relief bill has protections for workers including necessary PPE, safe workspaces, access to paid leave, health care and unemployment payments. States must be kept solvent, and businesses must have accountability. I am also asking him/her to actively support the Every Worker Protection Act. Thank you.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: WRITE TO VOTERS FROM YOUR HOME
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Stay tuned — more activities to come!
BACKGROUND:
While Trump and his party insist that employers must be insulated from the economic pain of the pandemic, they’ve weakened guidelines protecting both the health and economic survival of workers.
OSHA and CDC have floundered in providing clear guidelines for workers protection and Trump refuses to make CDC recommendations enforceable.
McConnell declared that he would block the next relief bill unless it removes legal liability for businesses that fail to provide workplace safety precautions against the coronavirus, leaving them totally unaccountable.
Lindsay Graham has promised that federal unemployment benefits will be reauthorized “over our dead bodies”.
Trump has pushed the burden of fighting the pandemic onto the states, and now has threatened to deny federal aid to any that refuse to support his political agenda.
Prematurely reopening businesses means workers must choose between going back to work and risking infection both for themselves and their families, or loss of unemployment benefits.
It is clearly up to our MOC’s to protect workers, their families and the public. The next relief bill must ensure that workers have protections including necessary PPE, safe workspaces, access to paid leave, health care and unemployment payments. States must be kept solvent, and businesses must have accountability.
