Walgreens employees are threatening to walk off the job next week over staff shortages. “We don’t believe that Walgreens is allowing us to give our patients safe care,” an organizer told CNN.
As an ex-walgreens worker, good on them. I hope they have a high participation rate. Walgreens does not give one single fuck about anyone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hundreds of pharmacists and other employees at one of the country’s largest drug store chains could walk out of the job on Monday to protest what they say are increasingly miserable working conditions, according to multiple news reports.
“We don’t believe that Walgreens is allowing us to give our patients safe care on a daily basis,” an organizer of the labor action told CNN.
It comes after similar actions last month at CVS stores, where pharmacists likewise complain that staffing cuts have left them overburdened.
One of their top concerns was short-staffing, which several workers previously told Insider left employees overwhelmed and caused long wait times for patients.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Walgreens employees, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“We are engaged and listening to the concerns raised by some of our team members,” the company said, adding that it is “making significant investments in pharmacist wages and hiring bonuses to attract/retain talent in harder to staff locations.”
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On one hand, I’m all for it.
On the other, hopefully meds are still available.
Not only is Walgreens a notoriously terrible employer, they are also notoriously anti-competitive. Walgreens has gone out of its way to buy out or eliminate competition in a lot of places.
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