The union that represents many essential workers in the food chain wants hazard pay and earlier COVID-19 vaccinations.
United Food and Commercial Workers Union President Marc Perrone says there have been nearly 400 grocery and meatpacker worker deaths and nearly 80-thousand workers infected or exposed to coronavirus. “Ninety-one percent of our members are concerned about the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fifty-seven percent of those workers are more concerned now than they were thirty to sixty days ago.”
Perrone criticized large retailers and government leaders for not doing enough to protect essential workers and says they need the vaccines sooner.
