Legislative Alert
Letter to Senators Urging Them to Support Emergency Funding to Help Protect Workers Responding to the Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak
… On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I urge you to advance an emergency supplemental appropriations package that will support the first phases of a national response to the … our public health system and our system of worker protections. Workers should not incur additional costs when they do the right thing to keep themselves and their families safe and protect public health—take time off from work when they are sick, get tested for COVID-19, seek medical treatment for the virus, or when they are placed in isolation …