(h/t @lunarfox22)
Employees at two of the largest drugstore chains in the United States say harsh working conditions make it difficult to safely fill prescriptions, which could put the health of their customers at risk. Now, they’re demanding change by staging a series of walkouts across the country.
Pharmacy employees at some Walgreens stores, including pharmacists, technicians and support staff, are planning a walkout between October 9-11, an organizer, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from the chain, confirmed to CNN. Some employees plan to walk out for just one day, while others expect to shutter their pharmacies for all three days.
Employees at more than 500 of America’s approximately 9,000 Walgreens stores across the United States have expressed interest and solidarity, a Walgreens pharmacy employee and walkout organizer said, though fewer will likely end up participating.
GOOD. FOR. THEM. i left walgreens this year. i did not work in the pharmacy but i saw what happened to those people, we'd talk in the break room, and from 2020 on they were just dead inside all the time. i fielded a lot of angry calls from customers whose prescriptions were days or weeks behind. there's no fuckin way what was going on back there was safe. i know everyone was trying their best but it was totally out of control. front end was a nightmare too.
nobody should have to work in those conditions. the entire c-suite of that company deserves to be chained to the registers on christmas day with no backup lol. we need to outlaw the kind of purposeful understaffing walgreens and its ilk have been doing to "save money" (while also pissing up a storm about shoplifting, loooool god nobody above store manager has a single brain cell)