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вЂњThey were actually the first people to help me out,вЂќ Salm said.

The $225 she received from ROC United enabled her to pay her mobile phone bill - her only connection to the internet, which she needed to file for unemployment aid.Д¬ompounding her difficulties, FloridaвЂ™s unemployment aid system, like other statesвЂ™, was overwhelmed at the time.

The money was a financial life-saver for people like Jazz Salm, 37, who lost her server job at a Sunrise, Florida, ChiliвЂ™s that closed in March 2020 when the pandemic erupted. ROC United, using donated funds from foundations, responded by distributing $1.5 million in cash payments to about 5,000 laid-off workers. The pandemicвЂ™s calamitous impact on restaurant workers has raised the groupвЂ™s profile since last yearвЂ™s widespread shutdowns initially cost 6 million restaurant workers - nearly half the industryвЂ™s total - their jobs. Siby, 56, is now the president of Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a nationwide advocacy group that emerged from the attacks. The tragedy sent Siby on a path he had never imagined he would take when he emigrated from the Ivory Coast in 1996: He made it his mission to advocate for higher pay and better working conditions for restaurant workers - a role that has gained importance as the restaurant industry has struggled more than most in the grip of the viral pandemic.

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A cook and dishwasher at the World Trade CenterвЂ™s Windows on the World restaurant, Siby had swapped shifts that day with a co-worker who ended up dying in the terrorist attacks. Twenty years after 9/11, Sekou Siby still feels the pangs of survivorвЂ™s guilt.

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