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Danny Esposito, of Simsbury, (left) takes a customer’s temperature before allowing her to enter LaBonne’s Market in Watertown last spring.
Unions representing thousands of grocery store workers vented their frustration Monday night with Gov. Ned Lamont’s decision not to prioritize the group in the next wave of coronavirus vaccinations.
“We’re disgusted, we’re frustrated,” said Mark Espinosa, president of Local 919 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents about 7,000 Stop & Shop grocery chain employees in Connecticut. “They are front line employees. They are essential. Let’s face it, if they’re not in the stores, people are not eating.”
Union seeks hazard pay for grocery store workers across Western Washington KIRO 7 News Staff
Though grocery store workers are receiving additional hazard pay in Seattle and Burien, their union wants all grocery store workers across Western Washington to get that pay as well.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 21 held a news conference Tuesday morning announcing a campaign to make that happen.
The union said while grocery stores provided hazard pay to workers for a few months during the start of the pandemic, it was cut in May. Since then, grocery stores have refused to reinstate it, though workers have “more tasks, stress, challenges, profits, and as if there weren’t a risk of getting a deadly virus,” the union said in a news release.
The Day - Grocery store workers disgusted with Lamont s new COVID-19 vaccine policy - News from southeastern Connecticut theday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kroger will shutter two "underperforming" Quality Food Centers in Seattle in response to a new mandate by the city council requiring an extra $4 per hour in hazard pay for frontline grocery workers.