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 ‘‘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 Los Angeles County approves hero pay for grocery workers, relief for renters The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on several measures Tuesday to provide economic…adminJanuary 6, 2021
CoronavirusNews About 20% of grocery store workers had Covid-19, and most didn’t have symptoms, study found Grocery store work puts employees at serious risk for infection, a new study found, particularly…adminOctober 30, 2020
News Grocery workers say morale is at an all-time low: ‘They don’t even treat us like humans anymore’ “For the record, we are seeing reduced turnover among our store team members,” he said.…adminAugust 12, 2020
News On the front lines of the pandemic, grocery workers are in the dark about risks In Quincy, the health department first contacted the local Walmart on April 11 to inform…adminMay 26, 2020
News The best part of my supermarket job was the people. Now, they’re the worst part. That’s the worst part of my job now. These days, you can’t help but see…adminMay 22, 2020
News Grocery workers are everyday heroes during coronavirus crisis Each night at 7 p.m. here in New York, something wonderful happens on my block…adminMay 19, 2020
News Will Grocery Workers Still Be ‘Heroes’ When COVID-19 Subsides? For Joshua Cano, every cough “sounded like a gunshot.” Twenty-four years old, Cano works as…adminMay 6, 2020