County workers push for ‘pandemic pay’ as coronavirus cases soar – Chicago Sun-Times*

Joyce Klein, a social worker at Stroger, said offering hazard pay is merely “the first line to show respect to your workers...The hospital spent a lot of time preaching about how there’s heroes here, and they put signs up calling everyone heroes. But then they refuse to treat them like heroes."
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Poor Taxpayer
5 years ago

Give it to them just raise taxes.
It is not like a clerk at Wal Mart faces anything like a government worker does.

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