Idaho grocery worker union rep. says, 'There's no labor shortage, there's a pay shortage.'
In a January 11 earnings call to investors, Albertson’s CEO Vivek Sankarian said that the company had been hoping to recover from recent supply issues, but the omicron variant of COVID-19 “put a dent in that.” NPR reports that “grocery store workers are catching the virus in higher numbers.” That, while acting as frontline workers during the pandemic and often facing the wrath frustrated, and occasionally customers.
Source: boisestatepublicradio.org