Photo credit (Left to Right):  Photo #1 and #2 (By CWA District 1/Flickr), Photo Center/Top ( © Justin Sullivan via Getty Images), Photo Center/Bottom (By CWA District 1/Flickr) and Photo on the Right ( By Joe Piette/Flickr).

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Photo credit (Left to Right):  Photo #1 and #2 (By CWA District 1/Flickr), Photo Center/Top ( © Justin Sullivan via Getty Images), Photo Center/Bottom (By CWA District 1/Flickr) and Photo on the Right ( By Joe Piette/Flickr).

WE’VE SUED

Labor unions representing healthcare workers, teachers, transit operators and millions of other frontline workers joined with environmental groups today to sue the federal government over its failure to provide adequate masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment to these essential workers.

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Filed on 10/8/2020

 

 

About This Complaint

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Today’s lawsuit says Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf should act immediately to ensure the manufacture and distribution of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). The agencies failed to respond to an August petition from the groups that demanded emergency action, violating federal law. The agencies have refused to properly manage PPE production and distribution, leaving states and industry to compete and frontline workers short of supplies.

Our Actions

The Labor Network for Sustainability joined with labor unions and environmental groups to sue the federal government over its failure to provide adequate masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment to these essential workers.

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PLAINTIFFS & PETITIONERS

Union Plaintiffs

  1. Amalgamated Transit Union
  2. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
  3. American Federation of Teachers
  4. Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
  5. Communications Workers of America
  6. Service Employees International Union
  7. Transport Workers Union of America
  8. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
  9. United Steelworkers

 

Environmental Plaintiffs

  1. Center for Biological Diversity
  2. Friends of the Earth
  3. Labor Network for Sustainability

Unions & Advocacy Groups Supporting the Original Petition

Unions

  1. Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)
  2. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
  3. American Federation of Teachers (AFT
  4. American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
  5. Association of Flight Attendants (AFA)
  6. Communications Workers of America (CWA)
  7. Maine American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (Maine AFL-CIO)
  8. National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
  9. National Nurses United (NNU)
  10. Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  11. Transport Workers Union of America (TWU)
  12. The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE)

Advocacy Groups

  1. 350.org
  2. Alliance of Nurses for Health Environments (AHNE)
  3. Center for Biological Diversity (CBD)
  4. Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)
  5. Earth Action, Inc.
  6. Earthworks
  7. Fayetteville Police Accountability Community Taskforce
  8. Fire Drill Fridays
  9. Friends of the Earth (FOE)
  10. Greenfaith
  11. Greenpeace
  12. Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS)
  13. National Children’s Campaign
  14. Oil Change International
  15. Sunrise Movement
  16. The Climate Center
  17. Union of Concerned Scientists
  18. US Climate Action Network (USCAN)