We Need a Real COVID Relief Package - Phone Bank for the Heroes Act Aug 4

The next Federal COVID relief package, the HEROES Act, which the House of Representatives passed back in May, is stuck in the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stalled the bill because he opposes extending unemployment protections and aid for State and Local Governments. Instead he wants to focus on protecting employers from being sued for putting workers and customers at risk. Mitch McConnell’s proposal includes $0 for state and local governments!

With State budgets facing billions in deficits and no help from the Federal Government, States will be forced to cut their budgets and tens of thousands of public sector jobs in District 1 and vital services that our firefighters and teachers provide are threatened with furloughs, layoffs and cuts. We’re already seeing teachers in NYS being laid off by the hundreds and NYC Mayor De Blasio threatening public sector layoffs. This is not acceptable. We have to push back!

CWA members will be holding a ZOOM phone bank on the HEROES Act and we need your help!

HEROES  Day of Action
Tuesday, August 4, 6-8 PM on ZOOM
to call voters in Ohio

Click here to sign up to phone bank from your home on Aug 4, 6-8pm

Why Ohio? Our US Senators in District 1 are in support of the HEROES Act, but some Senators in red States are poised to fight for employers rather than for workers. We need to put pressure on them to do the right thing. CWA members across the country have been calling into red States for weeks and District 1 has focused on Ohio as our target.

With new cases of COVID-19 spiking, millions of Americans unemployed and State budgets in freefall, we need to ramp up now to demand that the Senate move on the bill!

The HEROES Act would provide much needed relief to State and Local government, premium pay for essential workers, paid leave, strengthened OSHA protections, and funding for safer voting in the 2020 elections. This critical legislation would benefit workers across the country, especially CWA members in the public sector.

Please pitch in! Sign up to to phone bank on August 4th.