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Workers of CVS pharmacies in California will demand safer working conditions from the company after the murder of a pharmacy employee Rite Aid , last week in Los Angeles.
Employees, who are in the UFCW Local union 770, they are integrating delegations to submit request sheets to their managers in order to work under conditions of better surveillance , safe staff levels and to achieve a fairer employment contract, with better salaries, adequate hours and with an accessible and fair family health insurance.
Yesterday, one of your fellow UFCW 770 members – whose name has yet to be released, was brutally murdered on the job.
But his death should not hav e happened. For several months, 770 members have highlighted safety issues at this store.
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– UFCW 770 (@UFCW 843) July 14, 2021
The Local Union 770 represents about 2, 600 workers of CVS pharmacies.
The mobilizations of workers are made in different stores located in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties .
Since the negotiations began on 14 by ma I passed, the group of workers has had more than 20 meetings with the company without making significant progress. The collective agreement expired on 30 last June .
There is concern about the growing violence registered in stores
In addition to demanding greater security in the face of the increase in infections due to the Delta variant of COVID – 19, CVS employees struggle for greater security in the face of the increasing violence that occurs in their stores .
Last week, a pharmacy worker in Lynwood was attacked by a shoplifter, while another Union colleague, Miguel Núñez Peñaloza, lost his life while working after being shot by an assailant in a Rite store Aid, in Glassell Park .
During the pandemic, pharmacy workers it is were in the first line of care by providing drugs to state residents , despite the fact that the company did not provide them with the appropriate equipment or inoculating against the coronavirus to personnel who worked in the same vaccination stations of the stores.
CVS is estimated to have made profits of nearly $ 8 billion dollars last year , while the CEO of the company received a salary higher than 36 millions of dollars.