Workers with the COSH network have pioneered new models that position workers as partners in government’s expansion and enforcement of workers’ rights at the local, state, and federal levels: 

• forming public-health councils to monitor workplace health and safety violations (LA County, California);
• securing enforceable safety standards and rights to form health & safety committees with management (New York state); and
• winning the nation’s first essential workers’ board (Harris County, Texas); and more!

Government agencies lack the tools, staffing, knowledge, and trust needed to ensure healthy, safe, and dignified conditions. These victories are part of our work to change this, by collaborating with the government to enforce workers’ rights and create a culture of responsiveness and accountability to workers.

Our eight regional committees are a hub for these efforts. Regional coordinators and committees help workers and their organizations build relationships with each other -- then campaign together for a world where the government listens to our complaints and enforces our rights and employers respect the law. Learn with us! Access COSH’s Worker-Engaged Government Co-Enforcement Toolkit here.

National COSH helps us bring our efforts together and bring the fight to realize our rights to the highest levels of the federal government. Working in this way, we are advancing workers’ National Agenda for Health and Safety. And we’re winning real gains, like the Department of Homeland Security’s commitment to halt workplace-based immigration actions and the Department of Labor’s new process to protect undocumented workers who engage in enforcement efforts from immigration action.