Workplaces are safer, healthier, happier, and more productive when workers can speak out and speak up together when their rights or their dignity are violated.

However, Corporations making record profits are also setting record number of violations to silence workers who report harassment, discrimination, unsafe workplaces, or who try to organize a union for respect on the job.

Tell the Department of Labor it needs to do more to hold bad bosses accountable, expand access to important tools, and provide support for workers fired for asserting their rights. 

Release “Retaliation Response” Dislocated Worker Grants to cushion the blow of being fired and help workers find new opportunities.

The Department of Labor has a strong history of applying Dislocated Worker Grants to prevent economic fallout and create economic opportunity when workers face significant layoffs or disruptive hurdles.

When the owner of a meatpacking plant in Vernon, California decided to close its doors, the 2,000 workers who just had their job taken away found support from the state, their union, and the Department of Labor working together to make sure their needs were met, provide training in other industries and connect them with new potential employers.

In response to communities grappling with the opioid crisis, the Department of Labor has distributed more than $100,000,000 in grants to equip impacted workers with the skills to reintegrate into the economy and serve as public health workers to address the crisis as a whole.

With workers across the country having their lives turned upside down by the rash of employers illegally firing them when they speak up or speak together, it makes sense for the Department of Labor to extend the same types of support.