It’s dangerous to be a worker in Tennessee. In East Tennessee, we saw five workers tragically perish in the flooding at Impact Plastics. In West Tennessee, FedEx has been featured on the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s “dirty dozen” report for worker safety violations when a worker died in 2023. In Middle Tennessee, Hankook in Clarksville is receiving hundreds of millions of our public dollars while a worker died at their battery plant and the tire plant has been cited over and over again for health and safety violations.

We must ensure that Tennessee isn’t just a great place for business but a great place for workers. In 2024, Tennessee gave corporations another billion dollar tax-break resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue for the state, including our public schools. Corporations continue to get tax breaks while Tennesseans who work at these corporations face dangerous conditions on the job. That’s not right.

The Workers Right to Live Bill calls for companies to report workplace fatalities within 24 hours, state power to investigate employer negligence and ultimately holds corporations accountable for workplace safety issues through financial penalties and threat of paying back economic incentives from the state. We need accountability, we need workplace safety and it’s only right that we fight for the people who make our economy run and our state thrive.

Will you protect our workers and hold these corporations accountable?