Campaigns and Actions

Essential workers are on the frontlines - making sure we have access to food, health care, sanitation and other vital services.  Yet employers and the federal government have failed to take care of these workers.  



To ensure safety and justice, essential workers are joining with COSH groups, labor unions and other community allies and taking action.

Featured Campaigns: The Fight for Workplace Safety, The Progressive, 5/13/20

• Fight for $15: Demand McDonalds Shareholders #ProtectAllWorkers

Campaign Toolkits

• Model Workplace Safety and Health Demands for Essential Workers, National COSH*
• Essential Workers Toolkit, MassCOSH
• Saving Workers’ Health and Lives in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tools for the Fight, Labor Notes
• How to Bargain for a Healthy and Safe Return to the Workplace, Labor Notes

State and Local Coalition Demands

• A Safe and Just Return to Work, National COSH
• California - SoCalCOSH, WorkSafe and partners: Cal/OSHA Emergency Standard Petition; Letter to Governor Newsom; Listen to Workers Demand Letter
• Illinois - Chicago Labor Coalition: Platform to Protect Students, Families and Workers
• Massachusetts - MassCOSH: Letter to Gov. Baker pushing back on Back-to-Work order ; Reopening Advisory Board Comments; Gov. Baker's Reopening Report Card
• New Jersey - NJ Time to Care Coalition: Comment on Proposed Legislation; Proposed Executive Order for Pandemic Protections
• New York - Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN): New York Health and Essential Rights Order (NY HERO)
• Oregon - Safe Jobs Oregon Coalition: Letter to Governor Brown

Workplace Campagns

• PayDay Report: COVID-19 Strike Wave Interactive Map

Nurses

• National Nurses United: Call to Action

Poultry Workers

• Poultry Workers Coalition: Poultry Industry Letter
• Western North Carolina Worker Center: Letter to Gov. Roy Cooper; Follow-up to Gov. Cooper
• NC Justice Center Coalition: Petition to NC Department of Labor to adopt a rule that would protect workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Seafood Processing Workers

• Pescando Justicia, MassCOSH: Seafood Processing Worker Demands (April 2020)*
• Pescando Justicia: New Bedford Executive Order; South Coast Today Article on Pescando Justicia
• Pescando Justicia: Seafood Processing Worker Demands (December 2020) (en español)

Warehouse Workers

• Warehouse Workers Stand Up: COVID-19 Actions for Responsible Warehouse Operators*

Building Trades

• Chicago Women in Trades: Letter to Governor Pritzker (IL) calling for shut down of non-essential construction projects
• North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters: Non-essential work stoppage during COVID-19 pandemic

Federal Campaigns

• National COSH: National Sign-on Letter to Retract CDC Guidance*
• AFL-CIO: Petition for OSHA emergency standard*
• Interfaith Immigrant Coalition: Immigration-Related Requests for Coronavirus Package 3 (Supplemental)
• Multiple Organizations: Whistleblower Protections