Our health care, janitorial, delivery, mail, transportation, farm, grocery, and domestic workers are on the front lines of this pandemic. @RoKhanna and I are urging Congress to enact needed protections for them in the next coronavirus relief package.
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Essential workers are working in high-risk conditions without appropriate equipment, safety standards, or job protections. Some reports indicate that they may be contracting COVID-19 at a higher rate than the general public.
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.@RoKhanna and I are proposing an Essential Workers Bill of Rights, focusing on ten key areas affecting frontline workers—including additional health and safety protections, robust premium pay, truly universal paid sick leave and family and medical leave, and more.
Essential workers are the backbone of our nation’s response to coronavirus. We have a responsibility to make sure they have the protections they need, the rights they are entitled to, and the compensation they deserve. #ProtectEssentialWorkers
The next relief package must put all workers front and center—but it must also specifically include the policies in our Essential Workers Bill of Rights.
We must give essential workers the pay and benefits they deserve. Join us to call on Congress to ensure our country’s frontline workers are protected during this public health emergency. act.elizabethwarren.com/page/s/demand-…
