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Two CVS stores become the latest to join the national pharmacists unionization movement
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/04/12/cvs-rhode-island-pharmacy-guild/73301876007/Two CVS stores become the latest to join the national pharmacists unionization movement
Emily Le Coz
USA TODAY
[April 12, 2024]
Pharmacists decrying worsening working conditions are gaining momentum in their national effort to unionize as two CVS stores in the company’s home state of Rhode Island prepare to file petitions Friday to join the newly created Pharmacy Guild.
They become the second and third sites to officially seek membership in the guild. A CVS-owned Omnicare pharmacy in Las Vegas filed the first petition in late March.
Both of the Rhode Island pharmacies are 24-hour, standalone CVS stores in the southern part of the state – one is Wakefield; the other in Westerly – each about an hour from the company’s corporate headquarters in the Providence suburb of Woonsocket. The two stores have about nine pharmacists between them; other staff at the locations, including pharmacy technicians, are not part of the filings, organizers told USA TODAY.
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Emily Le Coz
USA TODAY
[April 12, 2024]
Pharmacists decrying worsening working conditions are gaining momentum in their national effort to unionize as two CVS stores in the company’s home state of Rhode Island prepare to file petitions Friday to join the newly created Pharmacy Guild.
They become the second and third sites to officially seek membership in the guild. A CVS-owned Omnicare pharmacy in Las Vegas filed the first petition in late March.
Both of the Rhode Island pharmacies are 24-hour, standalone CVS stores in the southern part of the state – one is Wakefield; the other in Westerly – each about an hour from the company’s corporate headquarters in the Providence suburb of Woonsocket. The two stores have about nine pharmacists between them; other staff at the locations, including pharmacy technicians, are not part of the filings, organizers told USA TODAY.
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