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Maine Governor to Provide Hazard Pay to State Corrections and Mental Health Workers
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Maine Governor to Provide Hazard Pay to State Corrections and Mental Health Workers

As state and federal elected leaders consider legislative proposals aimed at providing additional compensation to public-sector workers on the front lines of the Covid-19 Crisis, one elected leader has stepped forward and agreed to provide immediate 'hazard pay' increases to AFSCME state wo

Maine Governor to Provide Hazard Pay to State Corrections and Mental Health Workers

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Their Lives Are On The Line. Yet, ‘Public Service Workers Still Answer the Call’
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Their Lives Are On The Line. Yet, ‘Public Service Workers Still Answer the Call’

Updating wills before heading into work. Extending the lives of single-use masks. Self-isolating from their own families. These are just some of the shameful realities and conditions health care workers on the front lines of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic are facing each day.

Their Lives Are On The Line. Yet, ‘Public Service Workers Still Answer the Call’

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Local 298 Health Professionals Among Thousands of Council 93 Members on the Front Lines of Covid-19 War
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Local 298 Health Professionals Among Thousands of Council 93 Members on the Front Lines of Covid-19 War

As an Environmental Health Specialist in the City of Manchester, NH, there's not much in the public health arena that Local 298 member Karen Sutkus hasn't seen or done.

Local 298 Health Professionals Among Thousands of Council 93 Members on the Front Lines of Covid-19 War

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MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATION SEEKS ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WORKING DURING COVID-19 CRISIS
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MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATION SEEKS ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WORKING DURING COVID-19 CRISIS

As public employees continue to put their lives on the line every day while most of the country shelters safely at home, newly-filed legislation in Massachusetts would provide retroactive time and a half compensation to ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES who are required to work outside their home during

MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATION SEEKS ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WORKING DURING COVID-19 CRISIS