After working a year during a pandemic, Hamilton County s social workers want hazard pay.
More than 50 social workers and their supporters marched a block from the Hamilton County Job and Family Services to the Todd B. Portune Center for County Government Monday evening.
They demanded the county use some of its $158 million federal COVID-19 relief money to provide hazard pay for social workers who have been on the front lines during the pandemic.
The county will get $158 million in federal COVID-19 relief from the American Rescue Plan. Without you, this community would have fallen apart during this past year, said Mark Caddo, a representative with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees(AFSCME), to the crowd in front of the county administration building.