南加州七家CVS药店员工因要求更高薪酬和医疗保险，以及抗议公司不诚信的合同谈判而罢工。罢工从周五早上开始，持续到周末，影响了洛杉矶的四家门店和橙县的三家门店。罢工工人在一家洛杉矶门店外呼吁顾客不要越过警戒线。工会代表表示，CVS公司一直在“恐吓员工，监视他们，阻止他们与工会代表交谈”。受影响的CVS门店一直保持开放，由经理和非工会员工负责运营。工人们计划继续抗议，直到周三恢复谈判。罢工得到了两个参与的当地联合食品和商业工人联盟在9月29日的投票授权，超过90%的成员投票赞成。CVS发言人艾米·西博特在一份声明中表示：“我们对我们联合食品和商业工人联盟成员同事在洛杉矶地区的一些特定地点进行罢工感到失望。”西博特说，CVS在达成最终合同方面取得了进展，并就提高工资和增加公司医疗保险缴款达成“初步协议”。一位名叫梅丽莎·阿科斯塔的药剂师技术员，也是合同谈判委员会成员，表示她无法负担CVS提供的保险费用，而是加入了州立计划Covered California。“在我为CVS工作的九年里，我从未能负担得起他们的医疗保健计划，”她说。全国各地的主要药店连锁店一直在努力应对成本和网络竞争。CVS Health的首席执行官凯伦·林奇最近辞职，因为该公司股价下跌了19%。CVS正在接近完成一项为期三年的计划，将在三年内关闭900家门店。据工会称，CVS药剂师技术人员需要完成一项广泛的培训计划并满足许可要求，目前在工作五年后每小时收入为24.90美元。加入罢工的药剂师技术人员卡洛斯·阿尔法罗说，随着流感季节的到来，门店人手不足。“我们必须不断打电话给（病人）预约流感疫苗，推广疫苗，”阿尔法罗说。“除了在药房配药外，我们还被要求做很多额外的工作。”许多商店为了防止盗窃，越来越多地将商品锁起来，迫使顾客向员工寻求帮助。工人们表示，这加剧了人手不足的问题。“有很多顾客得不到帮助，不得不一直等待才能解锁商品，”阿科斯塔说。“他们认为我们只是不想帮助他们，但实际上是公司没有给我们足够的员工来提供优质的客户服务。”工人们还要求改善商店安全，以及其他要求。

😭 南加州七家CVS药店员工因要求更高薪酬和医疗保险，以及抗议公司不诚信的合同谈判而罢工。罢工从周五早上开始，持续到周末，影响了洛杉矶的四家门店和橙县的三家门店。罢工工人在一家洛杉矶门店外呼吁顾客不要越过警戒线。

😠 工会代表表示，CVS公司一直在“恐吓员工，监视他们，阻止他们与工会代表交谈”。受影响的CVS门店一直保持开放，由经理和非工会员工负责运营。工人们计划继续抗议，直到周三恢复谈判。罢工得到了两个参与的当地联合食品和商业工人联盟在9月29日的投票授权，超过90%的成员投票赞成。

💰 CVS发言人艾米·西博特在一份声明中表示：“我们对我们联合食品和商业工人联盟成员同事在洛杉矶地区的一些特定地点进行罢工感到失望。”西博特说，CVS在达成最终合同方面取得了进展，并就提高工资和增加公司医疗保险缴款达成“初步协议”。一位名叫梅丽莎·阿科斯塔的药剂师技术员，也是合同谈判委员会成员，表示她无法负担CVS提供的保险费用，而是加入了州立计划Covered California。“在我为CVS工作的九年里，我从未能负担得起他们的医疗保健计划，”她说。

🤒 全国各地的主要药店连锁店一直在努力应对成本和网络竞争。CVS Health的首席执行官凯伦·林奇最近辞职，因为该公司股价下跌了19%。CVS正在接近完成一项为期三年的计划，将在三年内关闭900家门店。据工会称，CVS药剂师技术人员需要完成一项广泛的培训计划并满足许可要求，目前在工作五年后每小时收入为24.90美元。

🧑‍⚕️ 加入罢工的药剂师技术人员卡洛斯·阿尔法罗说，随着流感季节的到来，门店人手不足。“我们必须不断打电话给（病人）预约流感疫苗，推广疫苗，”阿尔法罗说。“除了在药房配药外，我们还被要求做很多额外的工作。”许多商店为了防止盗窃，越来越多地将商品锁起来，迫使顾客向员工寻求帮助。工人们表示，这加剧了人手不足的问题。“有很多顾客得不到帮助，不得不一直等待才能解锁商品，”阿科斯塔说。“他们认为我们只是不想帮助他们，但实际上是公司没有给我们足够的员工来提供优质的客户服务。”工人们还要求改善商店安全，以及其他要求。

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike for better pay and health care and to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company.The walkout, which affected four stores in Los Angeles and three in Orange County, began Friday morning and continued into the weekend. On Saturday outside one of the LA stores, strikers urged customers not to cross the picket lines.Melissa Acosta, a pharmacy technician who is on the contract bargaining committee, accused the company of “intimidating workers, observing them, getting in the way of them speaking to union representatives.”The CVS locations affected have remained open, staffed by managers and nonunion employees.Workers planned to continue picketing until negotiations resume Wednesday. The strike was authorized by a vote of the two local United Food and Commercial Workers unions involved on Sept. 29, with more than 90% in favor.“We’re disappointed that our UFCW member colleagues have gone on strike at a few select locations in the Los Angeles area,” company spokesperson Amy Thibault said in a statement.Thibault said CVS has made progress on getting to a final contract and reached “tentative agreements” to raise pay and increase the company’s health insurance contributions.Acosta said she cannot meet the cost of the insurance CVS offers and instead is enrolled in the state-run program Covered California.“In my nine years of working with CVS, I’ve never been able to afford their health care plan,” she said.Major pharmacy chains across the country have been struggling with costs and online competition. CEO Karen Lynch of CVS Health, which owns the chain, recently stepped down as shares dropped 19%. CVS is nearing the end of a three-year plan to close 900 stores.CVS pharmacy technicians, who are required to complete an extensive training program and satisfy licensing requirements, currently make $24.90 an hour after five years on the job, according to the union.Carlos Alfaro, a technician who joined the strike, said stores are understaffed as the flu season begins.“We have to call (patients) constantly to get flu shots, push vaccines,” Alfaro said. “This is a lot of extra work we’re expected to do, on top of filling medications at the pharmacy.”Many stores have increasingly locked up items as an anti-shoplifting measure, forcing customers to get assistance from employees. Workers say that further exacerbates the understaffing problem.“There are so many customers that don’t get help and have to constantly wait to get something unlocked,” said Acosta. “They think we just don’t want to help them, when in reality the company doesn’t give us adequate staffing to be able to provide excellent customer service.”Workers are also asking for better store security, among other demands.