500 UAW 2322 members work at ServiceNet as counselors and advocates across Western Massachusetts, supporting people with disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and mental health issues at 60 different programs. BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) folks and women make up greater part of our membership that other workplaces in Western Massachusetts.

We are asking community members and allies to write ServiceNet management and their state legislators to demand ServiceNet prioritize those on frontline using the additional money the state government has given them for that express purpose. An extra $2.40 an hour in back pay from March 13th to May 1st is not enough! Most of us make only a little over minimum wage, and even folks who have been here for many years are lucky to making $15. The pandemic continues and we need to support our families.

State workers doing the same work as us have been getting $5 extra in hazard pay for several months and continue to receive it. Other human service agencies are paying between $3 and $5 dollars extra in hazard pay, from the beginning of the pandemic till now. The "bonus" pay being offered by ServiceNet is less than 1% of ServiceNet's annual revenue. Honor our sacrifice and lets invest in the people directly supporting some of the most vulnerable amid this pandemic.