Essential workers take outrage to the ballot box

9/17/2020

Urgent financial, racial and health crises are galvanizing 32BJ SEIU’s essential frontline workers to register 8,000 union member voters in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida. “While corporations are rescued by bailout after bailout, essential workers are redoubling their efforts to ensure they won’t be left behind in November,” said Jaime Contreras, Vice President of 32BJ on behalf of over 20,000 essential cleaners, security officers and airport workers in the D.C. area and Baltimore, MD. “This voting block of essential workers is driven by reasonable and urgent demands for essential pay and PPE because it means the difference between life and death, and financial stability and poverty.” Kwaku Agyeman, a contracted wheelchair agent at National Airport and 32BJ member who lives in Alexandria, VA, added that “Trump does not care about us and has done nothing for us but make things harder. He only helps the very rich.”