Politics & Government
Councilmembers Want DPW Workers To Get $5K Bonus Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Two Baltimore councilmen are proposing the bonus for both full-time and part-time public works employees.
BALTIMORE, MD — Two Baltimore City council members want public works department workers to immediately get a $5,000 bonus. Councilmen Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer and Zeke Cohen are proposing the bonus for both full-time and part-time employees who have worked throughout the pandemic.
“It is one of the hardest jobs in all of city government is to be a sanitation worker,” Cohen said, adding the bonus is “the least we can do.” Schleifer had already called on the city to give the DPW workers an hourly raise.
