The plans come after separate walkouts staged by pharmacy staff from CVS stores in the Kansas City area and Walgreens locations around the country.
Pharmacy staff from Walgreens are laying the groundwork for a nationwide walkout and multiple rallies at the end of October to protest unsatisfactory working conditions, and are in talks with employees from other retail pharmacies about joining them, CNBC has learned.
sees nationwide walkouts across several retail pharmacy chains as the "next step" in the fight against current working conditions. But the CVS employee said whether those employees join will depend on the outcome of a meeting the person has with Prem Shah, the company's chief pharmacy officer and president of pharmacy and consumer wellness, on Friday.will reach out to the Walgreens organizer and tell them that the pharmacy staff they represent will be "100% behind" the nationwide walkout effort.
Organizers are in talks with multiple existing unions, but there is no concrete agreement yet, according to Jerominski. He said the organizations include IAM Healthcare, a union representing thousands of professionals in the health-care industry, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents food, retail and health-care workers across the U.S. and Canada.
Currently, the company sets task expectations based on the number of team members each pharmacy should have instead of how much staff the locations actually have, the organizer said.
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