{"id":19315,"date":"2023-10-20T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2023-10-20T04:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T09:57:27","slug":"us-pharmacy-workers-strike-over-dangerous-workloads-as-cvs-and-walgreens-rake-in-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19315","title":{"rendered":"US pharmacy workers strike over \u2018dangerous\u2019 workloads as CVS and Walgreens rake in profits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">12&nbsp;CVS&nbsp;locations in&nbsp;Kansas City,&nbsp;Missouri, closed on 21 and 22 September after &#8216;wildcat strikes&#8217;&nbsp;Walgreens&nbsp;workers held their own wildcat strikes on 9-11 October at stores around the&nbsp;US, with confirmed closures in&nbsp;Oregon,&nbsp;Arizona,&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;and&nbsp;Massachusetts.<br>Prescription errors can have serious, and even deadly, consequences.<br>Pharmacist Shane Jeromski says pharmacists are underpaid for their skill level.<br>Retail chains have added immunization clinics to pharmacies, increasing revenue for the retailers but without adding staffing.<br>Walgreens say they are making significant investments in wages and bonuses to attract and retain workers.<br>CVS says it is working with pharmacists to address their concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/oct\/19\/cvs-walgreens-strike-pharmacy-workers\">Theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12&nbsp;CVS&nbsp;locations in&nbsp;Kansas City,&nbsp;Missouri, closed on 21 and 22 September after &#8216;wildcat strikes&#8217;&nbsp;Walgreens&nbsp;workers held their own wildcat strikes on 9-11 October at stores around the&nbsp;US, with confirmed closures in&nbsp;Oregon,&nbsp;Arizona,&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;and&nbsp;Massachusetts.Prescription errors can have serious, and even deadly, consequences.Pharmacist Shane Jeromski says pharmacists are underpaid for their skill level.Retail chains have added immunization clinics to pharmacies, increasing revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[23516,6690,3969,2109,1378,2061,2099,1139],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cvs","tag-danger","tag-pharmacy","tag-protest","tag-strike","tag-walgreens","tag-work","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19318,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}