United Steelworkers (USW) District 9 includes the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina and the Virgin Islands.
Three bills have passed through the House and Senate and are now signed into law. We are lobbying for even more measures...click to get the latest.
States must protect public health and fill in the gaps in the federal law on ensuring that all employees have access to coronavirus-related paid sick days.
The bill has more than ten times the amount spent on the first two coronavirus bills combined.
Today we signed on to a letter to the AHA urging them to stop muzzling healthcare workers with threats of disciplinary action for speaking out about coronavirus patient caseloads and dwindling hospital supplies needed to care for such patients.
District 9 Director
Daniel Flippo