Labor leaders expected to endorse strike support for Rite Aid workers

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Executive board members with the Los Angeles Federation of Labor AFL-CIO are expected on Monday to endorse strike support for an estimated 6,000 unionized Rite Aid workers in Southern California.

Members from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents the employees, already voted to authorize a strike if necessary. The federation’s strike-sanction endorsement would mean that 300 member unions — representing about 800,000 union members and their families in Los Angeles County — would honor the strike.

Workers are at odds with the pharmacy chain on a variety of issues related to wages, healthcare benefits and full-time status. Their current labor contract expired July 14 after months of negotiations. The two sides have yet to reach an agreement.

“They came in with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude,” said Mike Shimpock, a spokesman with the UFCW, Local 770. “We’ve given proposals they can live with — proposals that we believe are acceptable. But they have been immovable on key issues.”

Read more: https://www.ocregister.com/2018/09/07/labor-leaders-expected-to-endorse-strike-support-for-rite-aid-workers/

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1. Rite Aid

Is a horrible company to work for. Although ours had no union because the store manager was a republican. I now wish Walgreens would of bought them out!