News Supermarket workers feel alone and unrecognized over COVID-19: ‘Is today the day I get the virus?’ Adding to the stress is the growing political battle over granting grocery workers “hero pay,”…adminFebruary 17, 2021
News An unexpected pitfall for some cities’ mandatory hazard pay for essential workers Laura Fong: Last month, the Long Beach City Council, pointing to large chains not doing…adminFebruary 17, 2021
News Grocery workers say COVID-19 has begun spreading more quickly Grocery store workers are facing a greater risk of getting COVID-19 now than they were…adminFebruary 10, 2021
News ‘‘We Are Forgotten”: Grocery Workers Hope for Higher Pay and Vaccinations It has been an exhausting 10 months for Toni Ward Sockwell, an assistant manager at…adminFebruary 9, 2021
News Costco Posts Biggest Year Ever, Sells 101M Rotisserie Chickens Despite COVID-19 impeding its typically brisk expansion pace of 20 new buildings a year globally,…adminJanuary 25, 2021
News Quebec grocery union, management work to untangle expected curfew complications A union representing thousands of food-store employees was meeting with management Wednesday afternoon to figure…adminJanuary 7, 2021
News Teamster workers call for improved COVID-19 safety at two Albertsons distribution centers About 800 Teamsters members held protests this week at Albertsons Cos. distribution centers in Tolleson,…adminJanuary 7, 2021
News UFCW Calls on Albertsons to Halt Effort to Eliminate Jobs of Essential Grocery Workers Vital to Food Access for Millions Amid COVID Surge The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which represents 1.3 million frontline workers…adminJanuary 5, 2021
News The Trump administration approved faster line speeds at chicken plants. Those facilities are more likely to have covid-19 cases. More than 60 percent of meat plant workers are Black, Latino, Asian American or Native American,…adminJanuary 4, 2021
News Growing concerns for supermarket employees hard-hit by pandemic The union for retail food workers says more needs to be done to protect employees.…adminJanuary 4, 2021