Essential workers deserve -- at minimum -- a living wage.
to feed my family. These are the two biggest blessings, and having these freedoms are saving me right now.see food on the shelves, bring it home, and cook for my three kids. I think in the midst of all this a lot of people — not all, but a lot — are forgetting those workers who are risking their own health, and the health of their loved ones, to get you food. A lot of them are scared they are going to get sick, which isn’t an emotion you should feel as you walk into work every damn day.
There’s the woman I was watching stock the shelves with toilet paper at the grocery store. As soon as she put a roll up, it was gone. She had to remind almost everyone to read the signs hanging on the shelves every six inches telling people they were only allowed to take one package per day. Not everyone was pleasant to her, and many of them felt perfectly entitled to invade her personal space as she stocked the shelves.
Do you think minimum wage is a fair rate to be paying these people who are literally risking their health to provide you this necessary and essential service? Everything else, besides the hospital, is closed. These folks are still working though because we need them, we depend on them. Would you take these risks for minimum wage? Would you want your child doing it for minimum wage?If someone asked you to take a job that could expose you to a virus that could potentially kill you — for $7.
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