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).

#PPEforAll

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).

NO MORE EXCUSES!

Labor unions representing nurses, teachers and millions of other frontline workers have joined with environmental groups to demand that the Trump administration take emergency action to provide adequate masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment to these essential workers.

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Filed on 8/11/2020

 

 

About This Campaign

AMPLIFY ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Essential workers are at the frontlines of battling the COVID-19 pandemic and shouldering the country’s entire survival. Employers continue to put the lives of frontline workers at risk to care for COVID-19 patients and deliver the essential services upon which the entire country relies. The consequences of the PPE shortages are fatal for frontline workers.

Our Actions

The Labor Network for Sustainability, along with labor unions and environmental groups, have signed a legal petition drafted by the Center for Biological Diversity, which demands that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf act immediately to ensure the manufacture and distribution of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE). The Trump administration has refused to properly manage PPE production and distribution, leaving states and industry to compete and frontline workers short of supplies. 

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SIGNATORIES

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)