diff --git a/.github/workflows/rerun-workflows.yml b/.github/workflows/rerun-workflows.yml
index 720a922b33d819a463b36f2bda0a24219cac0407..d892ebd431fdeab7392db23bf28c03eb41b1e690 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rerun-workflows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rerun-workflows.yml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
             } else {
               // notify slack of repeated failure
               const WebClient = require('@slack/web-api');
-              const slack = new WebClient(${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }});
+              const slack = new WebClient('${{ secrets.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN }}');
 
               await slack.chat.postMessage({
                 channel: 'engineering-ci',