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Local Stop & Shop workers with U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal at a July event seeking hazard pay.
Stop & Shop workers have won a second round of extra hazard-duty pay for service during the Covid-19 pandemic’s summer months.
Their union, the United Food and Commercial Workers, Friday announced a deal to that effect with the supermarket chain on behalf of 56,000 employed nationwide.
Under the deal, the chain will give workers retroactive pay “in the form of lump sum payments equal to 10 percent of all hours worked between July 5, 2020 and August 22, 2020,” the union announced in a press release.
The chain had given workers hazard pay during the first months of the pandemic. Then it refused to offer a second round despite efforts by the union to obtain it; click here for a local story about that.
The deal doesn’t include paid time off, and it doesn’t cover unions whose locals are currently in contract negotiations.
It's good to see labor pushing for fair compensation. And winning.
Will the union ever ask for a seating for workers on the registers? It's hard for people to be on their feet
for 8 hours.Even a stool would help. No one should have to go home in pain and cry at the end of the work day.