Grocery workers no longer feeling like heroes
August 12, 2020
Workers in grocery stores have lost hazard pay while continuing to face heavy workloads, sometimes aggressive customers who resent having to wear face masks while shopping and management that treats them as expendable. “At the beginning they valorized what was deemed a dead-end job, but four months later they don’t even treat us like humans anymore,” said Fox Wingate, 24, a Safeway associate in Maryland.
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