Grocery store employee unrest is on the rise as Stop & Shop proposed eliminating raises and a pregnant employee at Walmart had to continue heavy lifting or risk being put on unpaid leave
Among the most guilty of exploiting workers is Walmart. Antonia worked in the grocery department for a decade, in stores in Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas. In 2007, they paid less than what she had earned elsewhere, but “by that time, I didn’t have another option. I have three kids, and I have to take whatever I have,” she said. In 2014, she moved to Texas, and noticed conditions were worsening. “Mostly everybody, if they pay the rent, they don’t have no money to buy groceries.
According to Antonia, these conditions directly affected how she and her associates could do their jobs. In South Sioux City, Nebraska, she said there were at least three people working the produce department at any given time. But soon, the store started cutting workers, sometimes leaving her to unload 11 pallets of produce by herself, at wages she could barely support her family on.
”I think when the associates don’t feel comfortable, they don’t feel happy, I think that that reflects in the customer, because they don’t take care of the customer very well either,” she said. “How I can smile to somebody when your kid doesn’t have enough food in the house? When you are so behind on the rent?” When she was finally invited to ameeting, an organization that has worked to raise wages and improve parental leave policy at Walmart, she said she felt a sense of relief.
Though grocers unions have pressured management and gone on strike over the years, the recent push in the past few months has gained more attention, partially because of political campaigning.
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