All the essential works are probable now thinking, if we are so essential why don't we get paid more, instead of slave wages
Economists have long argued that increases in worker pay can lead to improvements in productivity—indeed, that it can actually be profitable to pay workers higher wages.
A lot of people have always asked the question why do the people who risk their lives ans serves the community get pay so little while companies make big profit off their hard labor with very little reward. Moreover, the first firm to offer higher wages is more likely to attract and retain more productive workers.
Police, firemen, teachers and service workers are all public servants and get pay with our tax dollars and all work very demanding and stressful occupations and should be rewarded.
They Say They Are Heroes, So Why Don't It Seem Like It
Instead, of economic justice, workers have received concessions from their employers that are ad hoc, contingent, and mostly temporary. Walmart handed out cash bonuses, Publix gave $50 gift to spend the money back into their store and Amazon associates received a $2 raise through May 16. Instacart workers, meanwhile, still need hazard pay. Amazon ends its unlimited unpaid leave policy today. Not only does it restore meaning to May Day, it tells a truth that corporations prefer to bury. Companies like Amazon call their workers heroes, but the praise is often a smokescreen. Behind it, frontline workers are dying, and advocates say widespread corporate negligence bears much of the blame.
Thousands more frontline workers are sick, and public officials are beginning to notice. At least 20 Walmart associates have died of COVID-19, United for Respect, an advocacy group that represents retail employees, said on Wednesday.The United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents thousands of frontline workers in grocery stores, says that 72 of its members have died. We notice now, however how many workers do you think have died and gotten sick from the flu alone, NIH1, SARSE, and so on.
Hear It From People Who Knows First Hand.
I also work part time as an essential worker 2 days a week risking my life for $140 a week while I am in between career so, I know the hard work and stress workers endure already and now add COVID-19. This was worst than any hurricane we have had to work through. I can also tell you this issue is not something that just started. These people work hard everyday and have nothing to show for it. Laws are needed to protect essential workers. Most essential workers go to work all the time when they are so sick because they live paycheck to paycheck and can not afford to take off. Their work is both hard manual labor and mentally stressful and often shown no respect or appreciation from the public, management and employers.
Essential workers should be able to take off from work and get paid leave when sick. They are putting themselves and others at risk. Anyone who works and is sick should be able to relax in confidence to take off. Humanitarian rights for essential has to be put in place and fast.
I hope those days when someone would say, if you don't like you job go find something else, because you don't know what that worker just went through from another customer of his or her manager. Next time you see an unhappy essential worker ask, is everything alright. You will be surprise how much that means.
The underlying problems here are not new. Decades of laissez-faire (nonintervention,free trade,individualism,free enterprise,live and let live) economic policy and a well-funded, well-coordinated legislative attack on labor rights was the fuel for all these years, the pandemic was merely the spark. The resulting conflagration will engulf the American worker unless politicians and corporate executives alike can be shamed into action and that starts with us the people also taking action. Stronger collective bargaining rights, universal paid leave, and a higher minimum wage would stem much of the bleeding.
The four-page proposal, which was introduced by Senate Democrats, calls for the creation of a "heroes fund" to provide hazard pay of up to $25,000 for employees working at hospitals, grocery stores, and other necessary industries.
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I proposed they should raise the minimum wage and also give the hazard pay and bonus. Most essential workers only work part time and have no medical insurance. Big company like Disney, Walmart and Publix employees are 70 - 80% part time so they don't have to insure them. I think the government should give them a tax incentive to insure all employees have medical insurance.
Let not fool ourselves they might have abolish #slavery on paper however, it's still alive and well in #America under a different name the #employee and it's not just black people. So yes We are all in this together and should all work together really abolish slavery for good. The dream of an Utopian society is not impossible where we are all working together for the common good of all.
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