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Shoshy Ciment/Business Insider People are calling for a boycott of Trader Joe's after an employee said he was fired. Ben Bonnema said he had asked the company to do more to protect its workers from COVID-19. Bonnema shared his termination letter on Twitter, and it went viral. Trader Joe's is facing calls for a boycott after firing an employee in New York. Ben Bonnema said on Twitter on Friday that he was fired from his job at the Trader Joe's on the Upper West Side after he asked the company to better protect its workers against the coronavirus. Bonnema shared th...

LM Otero/AP Photo Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and a frequent cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein. In this week's column, Constant talks about the 'hero pay' raises some stores like Trader Joe's and Kroger adopted last year. Kroger later blamed this raise for store closures, despite paying out billions in profits to the company's shareholders. Last March, when lockdowns began, grocery store workers and delivery drivers were rightfully hailed as heroes of the pandemic. Even as restaurants and bars clos...

LA City Council moves forward with $5 per hour 'hero pay' for grocery workers City News Service Share: LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- The Los Angeles City Council voted 14-1 Wednesday to preliminarily approve an emergency ordinance to require large grocery and pharmacy retailers to offer employees an additional $5 per hour in hazard pay amid the COVID-19 pandemic. However, because the ordinance was not unanimously approved on its first reading, the final vote will come during a second reading on March 3. "Fair compensation is the very least that our grocery store workers deserve after all they have don...

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LOS ANGELES (CN) — An attorney for the California Grocers Association told a federal judge Tuesday a city of Long Beach ordinance providing a $4 an hour boost in hazard pay for grocery workers interferes with ongoing labor negotiations and should be blocked. The judge didn’t seem convinced.  The Southern California city’s “Premium Pay for Grocery Workers Ordinance” provides the $4 per hour in premium pay for essential grocery workers who face higher risk during the Covid-19 pandemic. In court papers opposing an injunction, attorneys for Long Beach cited reports of grocery store cor...