Workers at Walgreens pharmacies nationwide are planning to walk out on the job on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to protest their working conditions.
The move comes as pharmacies nationwide contend with shortages of staff and key medicines and the onset of both flu season and new varieties of COVID-19, which in turn means providing more vaccines.
An anonymous walkout organizer who spoke to CNN said that Walgreens sets performance benchmarks based on how many people a pharmacy should have, even though many are understaffed. “We don’t believe that Walgreens is allowing us to give our patients safe care on a daily basis. Walgreens isn’t responding, they’re not fixing those things,” the organizer told CNN.
“The current regime has continued to cut hours while adding more tasks. This is unsafe for our patients and for Walgreens employees. I have spent hours explaining to patients why we scheduled them an appointment for a vaccine we didn’t have,” poster HldngWAGS2Account234 wrote, adding that two of their technicians had quit mid-shift.
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