While there was potential progress on securing our pension and health care for the future, Bartell Drugs/Rite Aid did not propose raises that recognize our work during this pandemic (still no hazard pay!), and during a time where safety and security is still uncertain.

The employer proposed:

• One $.10 raise in May at the top of the scale.

• One $.10 raise in January next year, 

  • But they are not even willing to guarantee that this raise would be on top of any increase of minimum wage.  

  • If minimum wage is greater than the $.10 raise to your wage rate on 1-1-22, then you would only get the minimum wage, NO MATTER HOW LONG YOU HAVE WORKED AT BARTELL’S!!!

“Just ten cents won’t pay the rent!” 

— Christina Common and Kia Haggerty

We will be bargaining again on April 21. Stay tuned for more details.  

Sign the hazard pay petition!

Our drugstore hazard pay petition, both on-line and on-paper, is adding more signatures everyday.  Now is the time to press the employer for the wages we deserve for working through this pandemic, and a living wage going forward.

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