Vaccine distribution in the U.S. has been a rocky road from a logistical point of view over the last several weeks, leaving essential workers in other states who remain necessary on the frontlines of the global pandemic wondering when exactly their turn will arrive.
“It’s overwhelming to us. The stories leave all of us weeping,” John Grant told the Sacramento Bee. “We’ve never had to make calls to workers who survived their husband’s death or their wife’s.”
Grant is president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 770, the union representing thousands of Los Angeles-area grocery employees, many hundreds of whom have been sickened in workplace outbreaks as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has surged.
Those workers, according to reports, are demanding many things — hazard pay, better and more thorough cleaning in stores, more readily available PPE supplies and more access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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