The Protecting Workers Alliance was formed in February, 2009 with the goals of bringing together a broad coalition of organizations to advocate for stronger protections of workers' safety and health.

Our Steering Committee is made up of representatives of member organizations including:

• The National Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
• The Occupational Safety and Health section of the American Public Health Association
• United in Support and Memorial of Workplace Fatalities

The Alliance brings together a wide range of organizations including community health advocates, labor unions, environmentalists, immigrant advocates, and others, who endorsed the Alliance's policy agenda entitled "Protecting Workers on the Job: Seven Priorities for Federal Action in 2009." Over 100 organizations have endorsed this agenda, including:

AFSCME Council 94
AFSCME District Council 47 (Philadephia)
AFGE Local 3840
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Alaska Injured Workers Alliance
Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment
Appalachian Citizens Law Center
Arkansas Coalition on Safety and Health
Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics
Basel Action Network
Breast Cancer Action
Breast Cancer Fund
BMWED/IBT Commuter Railroad System Division (Joint Council) and BMWED/IBT Local 2910
Buffalo AFL-CIO
Center for Health, Environment and Justice
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Chicago Area Committee on Occupational Safety and Health CACOSH)
Citizens’ Environmental Coalition
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture)
Clean Production Action
CATA - El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas (The Farmworker Support Committee)
Central New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (CNYCOSH)
Clean Water Action
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health (ConnectiCOSH)
Connecticut Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools
Connecticut Public Health Association
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Dupont Employees Philadelphia Works Union, IBDW Local 1186
The Ecology Center
Empire State Consumer Project
Environment Section, American Public Health Association
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Health Fund
Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island
Farmworker Association of Florida
Farmworker Health and Safety Institute
Farmworker Justice
Farm Worker Pesticide Project
Friends of the Earth
GCC/IBT District Council 9 (Philadelphia area)
Global Community Monitor
Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental
Safety and Health, University of Illinois School of Public Health
Green Harvest Technologies
Greenpeace
Healthy Schools Network
Houston Initiative on Worker Safety
IBEW Local 744 (Philadelphia area)
Indiana Toxics Action
Interfaith Worker Justice
International Chemical Workers Union
International Union of Painter’s and Allied Trades, District 11
Ironworkers Local 401, Philadelphia
Jobs With Justice-Rhode Island
Juntos/La Casa de los Soles, Philadelphia
Just Transition Alliance
La Raza Centro Legal, San Francisco
Labor Occupational Health Program
Maine Labor Group on Health (MLGH)
Maine AFL-CIO State Federation
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH)
Midstate (NY)Central Labor Council
Mid-State Education and Service Foundation
Migrant Clinicians Network
National Employment Law Project
The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees, District 1199C, AFSCME, AFL-CIO.
Natural Resources Council of Maine
New Hampshire Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NHCOSH)
New Jersey Work Environment Council (NJWEC)
New Solutions, a Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
New York State Public Employees Federation
The Newspaper Guild/CWA of Greater Philadelphia Local 38010
North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH)
OMB Watch
Occupational Health Clinical Center (Ithica, NY)
Oregon Center for Environmental Health
Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health (Philaposh)
Philadelphia Building Trades Council
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Restaurant Opportunities Center United
Rhode Island Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (RICOSH)
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Southeast Michigan Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health (SEMCOSH)
Southern California COSH (SOCALCOSH)
Steamfitters Local 420 (Philadelphia area)
Teamsters Local 623 (Philadelphia area)
Tompkins County (NY) Workers’ Center
Training for Development of Innovative Control Technologies
United Church of Christ
United Steelworkers of America Local 675
United Steel Workers (USW) Local 10-1 (Philadelphia, PA)
United Steel Workers Local 10-0086 (Westpoint, PA)
United Support & Memorial for Workplace Fatalities
University Professional & Technical Employees-CWA Local 9119
Watsonville Law Center
Western Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (WesternMassCOSH)
Western New York Area Labor Federation
Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health (WNYCOSH)
Western N.Y. Teamsters Joint Council No. 46
Wisconsin Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (WISCOSH)
Women's Voices for the Earth
Worked to Death
Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group
WorkSafe (Bay Area, California)
YKASEC - Empowering the Korean American
Young Workers Health and Safety Network