We as a company and community are providing the essentials for businesses to make sure our customers are save and taken care of and putting ourselves in harm's way through covid-19

This is a matter of life or death. Subcontracted employees like Janitors, Groundskeepers, and Dining Workers make an average of $11 per hour – and most live paycheck-to-paycheck. Many are older. Reports all over regarding the pandemic have already demonstrated that groups and other populations who are historically marginalized are bearing the greatest shock of the pandemic's impact. We can join a growing number of universities like Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Washington University who have leveraged institutional resources so that subcontracted workers and their families can weather this storm by guaranteeing income and benefits through May 28, June 13, and the end of contracts, respectively. A unified and wide-spread campus response is the only way to live out our values of social justice and public health for all. We must believe in these values now more than ever. We, the undersigned, implore the university to mobilize a systemic response for those on the front lines of the pandemic. Our actions now will define the University for years to come. We are in this together as one U! (scroll down to sign) Querida comunidad de la Universidad de Miami: ¡Una cultura de pertenencia incluye a TODOS los miembros de la comunidad! Durante este tiempo de crisis, los empleados de mantenimiento y aseo de UM se están viendo obligados a elegir entre perder su sueldo o trabajar bajo condiciones de miedo e incertidumbre. Otros empleados subcontratados, como los trabajadores de servicios alimenticios, han sido despedidos y muchos no han podido aplicar a los beneficios de las Oficinas de Desempleo debido a los millones de personas que se encuentran en la misma situación. Los empleados han manifestado que tienen miedo de contraer el coronavirus en el trabajo y están preocupados de usar ciertos desinfectantes, los cuales son tan agresivos que hasta pueden causar irritaciones en la piel y el sistema respiratorio. En una iniciativa colectiva para el cuidado mutuo y la supervivencia, 321 empleados subcontratados entregaron una petición al presidente Frenk abogando por su propio sustento bajo la pandemia. En sintonía con los empleados, pedimos a la Universidad de Miami que exija de inmediato lo siguiente para la seguridad económica, la salud y el bienestar de los trabajadores: 1. Los trabajadores subcontratados reciban tiempo libre pagado (PTO) y beneficios continuos durante esta crisis y no sean despedidos. Nadie debe perder un trabajo ni la asistencia sanitaria. 2. Trabajar en el campus durante la pandemia debe ser voluntario. Aquellos empleados subcontratados que deciden continuar trabajando durante esta crisis, recibirán un pago de riesgos de 1.5 veces su salario para satisfacer mejor sus necesidades. 3. Exigir que se implementen medidas preventivas en los lugares de trabajo para reducir el riesgo de que los empleados se contraigan y, por lo tanto, transmitan COVID-19. Los empleados deben recibir equipo y suministros de protección adecuados para la limpieza en la pandemia, incluidas máscaras/tapabocas. 4. Se informe inmediatamente a los trabajadores sobre casos positivos de personas que puedan haber ingresado a sus lugares de trabajo. Adicionalmente, proporcionar pruebas gratuitas para todos los trabajadores que trabajan en dichos espacios. 5. Comunicación abierta entre el Presidente Julio Frenk, los trabajadores subcontratados, incluidos los empleados de mantenimiento, aseo y alimentación, así como sus representantes y aliados en UM, para compartir conocimiento sobre la comunidad de UM. ¿Por qué es esto importante? Este es un asunto de vida o muerte. Los empleados subcontratados como los empleados de mantenimiento, aseo y alimentación mantienen nuestro campus en funcionamiento. Ganan un promedio de $11 por hora, y la mayoría viven de los ingresos del día a día. Muchos son mayores. Los informes sobre la pandemia ya han demostrado que los grupos y otras poblaciones históricamente marginadas, están siendo afectados de manera desigual. Podemos unirnos a un número creciente de universidades como la Universidad de Harvard, la Universidad de Chicago y la Universidad de Washington, que están aprovechando los recursos institucionales para garantizar que los trabajadores subcontratados y sus familias puedan sobrellevar esta tormenta garantizando ingresos y beneficios hasta el 28 de mayo, 13 de junio, y el fin de los contratos, respectivamente. Una respuesta unificada y generalizada en el campus es la única forma de demostrar nuestros valores de justicia social y salud pública para todos. Debemos creer en estos valores ahora más que nunca. Nosotros, los abajo firmantes, imploramos a la universidad que movilice una respuesta sistémica para quienes están en la primera línea de la pandemia. Nuestras acciones ahora definirán la Universidad en los años venideros. ¡Estamos juntos en esto como una U!

Sam's Mart gives the public the appearance of community. They are in fact, liars and don't care about the people on the front line of this company. We have direct contact with people hundreds of times a day. This is dangerous. The district managers are making sure they're not in the stores by sending out emails from the comfort of their homes while we are suffering and stressed. We have families too. So putting our lives af risk for a company that blatantly thinks its employees are trash and not worthy of hazard pay and transparency in it's business ethics.

Because it will allow the 4-6 feet rule to actually be allowed for the associates as well as the customers. Show your employees that their health matters too.

The definition of hazard pay by the UN is: "Hazard pay is a form of compensation granted to staff members who have been requested to remain and report for work in duty stations where very hazardous conditions, such as war or active hostilities, prevailed and where the evacuation of families and nonessential staff had taken place." Pizza Hut is currently open to the public during this time to provide customers with a much needed service of providing pizza among many other items. Many pizza hut employees are worried and scared that during these hard times of a pandemic that they or their families will likely contract COVID-19 due to being in contact with customers during their shifts without enough proper PPE to otherwise protect them. Thus pizza hut should be providing employees with hazard pay to compensate them for their extra work and exposure to COVID-19.

We as workers, especially immuno-compromised and vulnerable workers, are being forced to risk potential exposure to and spread of the Coronavirus while CEO Kenneth Keller can continue working remotely. We should not have to choose between paying for essential food, rent and medical supplies and compromising social solidarity (a.k.a. social distancing) or exposing ourselves to further risks.

We as workers, especially immuno-compromised and vulnerable workers, are being forced to risk potential exposure to and spread of the Coronavirus while CEO Niren Chaudhary can continue working remotely. We should not have to choose between paying for essential food, rent and medical supplies and compromising social solidarity (a.k.a. social distancing) or exposing ourselves to further risks.

As production Burford’s arborists and tree care workers, we understand the importance of maintaining safe and healthy landscapes for residents and municipalities. We want to continue the important work that we do to maintain our high standards of care–but most importantly, we want the human health risks we now take in doing so to be acknowledged and valued. We are told that we have choices-We also need pay and security. We are currently not in positions to meet this essential need if we choose to stay home in order to protect our health and well being. Give us the choice to be compensated for hazardous work or to protect ourselves at home and still make ends meet! ESPAÑOL: Como arborists de Burford’s nosotros entendemos la importancia de mantener las buenas condiciones y la seguridad de las propiedades. Queremos continuar el importante trabajo que nosotros mantenemos- pero mas importante, nosotros queremos ser reconocidos por los riesgos de salud que tomamos todos los días por realizar nuestro trabajo. Nos comunican que tenemos opciones. Pero tambien el pago y la seguridad es una necesidad de vida. Ahora, no tenemos ese pago y seguridad si decidimos quedarnos en la casa. Por favor denos la opción de tener una compensación por "hazard work", o la opción protegernos en casa con seguridad.

We employee's continue to risk our health/lives, AND the health of our families at home, daily for regular pay. We go to work sometimes 6 days/nights a week and are making a good bit less than most people who are out of work due to the virus and are collecting unemployment. We build and distribute all kinds of medical equipment, lab equipment, test kits (COVID-19 Test Kits for starters), and safety equipment/PPE to places all over the country. We are told by our supervisors that they are "protecting us from the virus while we are at work" but yet, WE HAVE NO HAND SANITIZER, LYSOL/DISINFECTANT SPRAY, OR ANY KIND OF DISINFECTANT WIPES. The warehouse location I work at got a letter from the U.S. Department of Labor because of OSHA complaints on March 26,2020. The letter stated our employer "did not follow CDC guidelines by cleaning facility following an employee diagnosis of coronavirus" and they "had not developed an infectious disease preparedness and response plan". Now, if you don't consider that working under hazardous conditions, I don't know what would. What would the employers do if ALL the employees at the warehouse I work at decided enough is enough and walked out until we got hazard pay? Hire more people? Good luck with that. Everyone that is unemployed right now are getting paid to stay home and be safe. Think they want to swap that for a job making $12 a hour and possibly a free dose of coronavirus? Doubt it.

This is important Because we employees are putting our life and our families life in danger by showing up to work everyday. Many of my coworkers feel the same way, we work with a company with over 250 employees on floor. That's not including the employees who work in the office. And they're not not following the guidelines of being 6ft apart. The only time we follow the guidelines is when we enter at the gate. That's only because the cameras are set up at the entrance.

It is life or death for us and survival and safety of our healths and family we have to make a difference it starts with us .

The support staff are the backbone of Resources for Human Development. without us the company doesn't exist. it's time RHD shows some appreciation for all the staff that are risking their lives and the lives of their family coming to work everyday. We serve some of the most at risk people in the country for this deadly virus. I believe our company could make this a little bit easier on the lower level people that are out there every day the current hazard pay policy is not indicative of the values of Resources for Human Development and needs to be revised immediately.