Democratic Congresswoman  Barbara Lee is working with several Congressional Black Caucus  members to speak up for Black tech employees who are being disproportionately laid off. In a letter to Julie Su, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor,  Lee and her colleagues said they’re concerned about the high rate of Black employees losing their jobs in the tech industry. “We write to express our concerns with recent reports highlighting the impacts of widespread layoffs within the tech industry and its disproportionate impacts on the African American community and women,” the advocates wrote, according to The Grio . “Tech companies who previously agreed to address bias and discrimination and create greater opportunities in the workforce are now quietly defunding diversity pledges.”