Local 5 Members have contracted Covid-19 – A Harvard study found 1 in 5 grocery workers tested positive for Covid-19, 3 out of 4 had no symptoms.
Grocery stores are ranking in RECORD PROFITS – Some are even pursing stock buybacks to inflate share prices to reward executives and investors while denying their workers hazard pay
NO additional PAID SICK DAYS – Workers lose pay and exhaust sick leave when they must quarantine sometimes numerous times to avoid infecting others on the job the right thing to do during a pandemic
Source: San Francisco Chronicle Opinion / Open Forum by President of Local 5 John Nunes
Join our fight to get Hazard Pay for Essential Grocery Workers
Local 5 has joined with UFCW local unions throughout California in a campaign to compel cities and counties to adopt ordinances requiring grocery companies to provide hazard pay to their employees during the pandemic.
The proposed ordinance would require grocery stores to implement hazard pay for all essential front-line grocery workers in the amount of $5 an hour in counties that are above a yellow-tier status on the COVID-19 severity scale.
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Passed Hazard Pay Ordnances Include
Oakland: Urgency Ordinance
- $5.00 per hour
- 500 or more employees nationwide includes franchise/franchisees
- 15,000 sq ft
- Prohibits retaliation
- Collective Bargaining waiver
- Enforcement
- Sunsets when the city reaches yellow tier
Berkeley: Urgency Ordinance
- $5.00 per hour
- Stores with 300 or more employees nationwide
- Stores with 25,000 sq ft
- Sunset date of 120 days or city reaches yellow tier, whichever comes first
- No retaliation
- Collective bargaining waiver
San Jose: Regular Ordinance
- $3.00 per hour
- 120 days sunset
- 300 or more employees nation wide
- Santa Clara County: Regular Ordinance grocery and drug
- $5.00 per hour in unincorporated areas of county
- 300 or more employees nationwide or 15 employees in unincorporated areas of county
- Sunset date of 180 days or county covid emergency order is lifted. Whichever comes first.
San Mateo: Regular and Urgency Ordinance
- $5.00 per hour
- Stores and pharmacies with 750 or more employee’s nation wide
- Excludes franchise
- 4 hours additional sick leave for vaccination
- Sunset date of 90 days urgency 120-day regular ordinance
San Leandro: Urgency
- $5.00 per hour
- 300 or more employees nationwide
- 15,000 sq ft or 85,000sq ft with 10% of sales floor dedicated to non-taxable merchandise
- Retail drug that sells a variety of prescription or non-prescription medicines
- Prohibited retaliation
- Collective bargaining waiver
- Credit for employer-initiated hazard pay
- Sunset date of yellow tier, 120 days or all covered employees are vaccinated
South San Francisco: Urgency
- $5.00 Per hour
- Grocery and drug stores with 500 or more employee’s nation wide
- Retroactive hazard pay dating back to February 11th, 2021
- Sunset date of 90 days but officials could extend
- Up to 4 hours additional paid sick leave for vaccinations
- No franchise
- Credit for company-initiated hazard pay.
San Francisco: Urgency (unanimous)
- $5 per hour
- Grocery and pharmacy with 20 or more employees or 500 employee’s nationwide
- Does not apply to employees making more than $35 an hour or more than $75,000 per year.
- Sunset date of 60 days or when the local Emergency last
- Includes anti retaliation language.
- Includes grocery and pharmacy workers.
- Includes 4 hours paid leave to vaccinate.
Daly City
- $5 per hour
- 500 or more employee’s nationwide
- Stores at least 10,000 sq ft in size.
- Dedicates 10% or more of their sales floor to consumable food products.
- 120-day sunset
- 4 hours leave for vaccination.
- Anti-retaliation Clause
Millbrae
- Grocery and retail drug
- 750 or more employee’s nation wide
- $5 per hour
- Up to 4 hour paid leave to vaccinate.
- Anti- Retaliation language
- 120-day sunset