The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has launched a national campaign to restore hazard pay for frontline workers. The campaign calls on leading grocery companies including Whole Foods, Walmart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Ahold Delhaize, to reinstate hazard pay in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the first phase of the UFCW’s national hazard pay campaign, at least 26 worker actions will be held this week at grocery stores and other essential businesses across the country in California, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, Tennessee, Maryland, West Virginia, and other states hit hard by COVID-19.
In addition, the UFCW will be releasing first person testimonials from workers on the frontlines, as well as customers and local community members, calling on these companies to provide hazard pay to all of these essential workers.
“America’s grocery workers are putting their lives on the line every day that they walk into the store, because this pandemic is far from over and the health threats are just as real now as they were when this crisis began,” UFCW International President Marc Perrone said in a statement. “It is outrageous that the CEOs of these companies refuse to restore hazard pay even as more of these workers are getting sick and dying every week. Hazard pay for grocery workers must be reinstated now.”
Related: UFCW Creates Contact-Tracing Program; Unions Condemn Stop & Shop for Ending Appreciation Pay.
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