Essential workers should be getting $600 hazard pay

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Dear fellow MoveOn member,

When asked on March 30 about proposals to give hazard pay to the millions of workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump said, "If anybody's entitled to it, they are."¹

But one month and four relief package bills from Congress later, no hazard pay has been given—or even "seriously considered" by Congress.² This is unacceptable. Essential workers—from bus drivers to farm workers and warehouse workers to health care professionals—deserve proper compensation and financial protection.

Congress must take initiative to compensate the ones still working and at-risk with the same extra $600 that unemployed people are receiving.

Essential workers should be paid from the time this epidemic began, because those who are still working are risking their own health, as well as the health of their families.

We the essential workers—the grocery store and meatpacking plant employees helping to feed your families, the health care workers nursing COVID-19 patients back to health, and many others—are risking our health and the health of our loved ones if we bring the virus home. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna have proposed a full Essential Workers Bill of Rights, including a living wage and hazard pay, because Congress should be providing essential workers with the protections they need, the rights they are entitled to, and the compensation they deserve.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that "this crisis is not over yet, and as long as these workers continue to work and expose themselves to the virus, they should be properly compensated."³ If you agree, please sign my petition.

Click here to add your name to my petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Najaka Carter

Sources:

1. "White House, Congress have not given any hazard pay to the medical workers they call heroes," The Washington Post, April 30, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/121949?t=10&akid=263065%2E10220574%2E9mFEzO

2. Ibid.

3. "Hazard Pay Plan Makes Little Progress In Congress During Coronavirus Stimulus Talks," The Huffington Post, April 20, 200
https://act.moveon.org/go/121950?t=12&akid=263065%2E10220574%2E9mFEzO

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