Cleveland Jobs With Justice and the Essential Workers CLE table are asking City Council and the Mayor’s Office to protect the City of Cleveland Essential Workers
During the course of the COVID pandemic, thousands of the City of Cleveland employees who were Essential Workers reported to work every day to provide us with critical city services that could not stop. Our Janitors at the airport, Sanitation Workers, Utility Workers, Fire, EMS, and Police continued putting their health and lives on the line working without any type of premium pay. In the spring of 2021, the US Government announced a round of funding that would be available for cities, counties, and states to use specifically to support the response and recovery from the pandemic. The City of Cleveland will receive a total of $512 million; one of the uses listed in the guidelines released by the US Department of Treasury is premium compensation for the Essential Workers. Still, our city workers have yet to receive any extra compensation from the city for their time on the frontlines.
You are invited to join us for a news conference:
Date: Monday, April 11, 2022
Time: 6:30pm
Place: Steps of City Hall (we will go inside if we have inclement weather)
601 Lakeside Ave E.
Cleveland, OH
We are asking the City of Cleveland to make our Essential Workers whole by compensating them for the time they worked during the 65-week city emergency during the pandemic. We are also asking the city to adopt our Essential Worker Bill of Rights to protect workers if we experience another pandemic or state of emergency in the future.
