grocery workers

Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers

March 20, 2020 Becky Dernbach, Mother Jones

Minnesota and Vermont have now officially designated another group of workers as emergency personnel: grocery clerks. This means the workers hurrying to stock shelves and check out customers in those states will also receive free child care. …

Teamsters Joint Council 42 Overwhelmingly Votes to Sanction Potential UFCW Strike

July 10, 2019 International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Teamsters Joint Council 42 in Los Angeles, Calif. voted unanimously to sanction a possible strike that could impact more than 60,000 grocery workers in Central and Southern California that are represented by seven United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) local unions. …