Collected Item: “Restore Pandemic Pay // Make it Permanant Poster”
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Restore Pandemic Pay // Make it Permanant Poster
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
poster
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
A poster shared on social media in support of advocacy work being done by a friend of the artist. At the beginning of the pandemic, workers in Canada's major grocery stores were given pay increases across the board by their individual employers, as compensation for the additional work and precautions they had to undertake and the hazards they would face having to interact with many different people during the near complete shut down. As time has gone on and other business sectors have begun to open up, the grocery chains have repealed this pay increase, a move which many workers and supporters consider unfair given they are still facing the same risks they have been since the beginning of the pandemic in Canada.
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
essential workers, grocery, masks, art, social justice, activism
Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.
https://twitter.com/michael_deforge/status/1275906383288950794
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Michael DeForge
Give this story a date.
2020-06-24