OVER 1000
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.
RECORD PROFITS
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
PAID SICK DAYS
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.
Join your cities Virtual Council Meeting on ZOOM to tell them you want Hazard Pay!
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Passed Hazard Pay Ordnances Include
Oakland: Urgency Ordinance 2/2/2021
• $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 effective 2/23/2021
- $5.00 per hour
- Stores with 300 or more employees nation wide
- 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 2/9/2021 went into effect 3/25/2021
- $3.00 per hour
- 120 days sunset
- 300 or more employees nation wide
Santa Clara County: Regular Ordinance grocery and drug 2/23/2021
- $5.00 per hour in unincorporated areas of the 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 effective 3/10/2021
- $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 effective 2/16/2021
- $5.00 per hour
- 300 or more employees nation wide
- 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 2/24/2021
- $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) effective 3/9/2021
- $5 per hour
- Grocery and pharmacy with 20 or more employees or 500 employee’s nation wide
- 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 effective 3/8/2021
- $5 per hour
- 500 or more employee’s nation wide
- 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 effective 3/9/2021
- 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
American Canyon effective 3/16/2021
- $5 per hour for large grocery workers
- 300 or more Employee’s nation-wide or 200 or more in the State
- Anti-retaliation language
- 120-day Sunset
Concord effective 3/30/2021
- $5 per hour for large grocery stores
- Includes large franchises.
- 120-day sunset or yellow tier whichever comes last.
- Stores with 300 or more employee’s nation wide
Alameda 3/16/2021 adopted goes in effect approx. 4/14/2021
- $5 per hour for large grocery stores
- 120-day sunset date
- Regular ordinance
Albany effective 4/5/2021
- $5 per hour for large grocery stores/ will be amended to include Target and CVS.
- Sunset date of 60 days at which point they will review and extend if necessary.
- Stores with 300 or more employees Nation wide
- Urgency ordinance
Richmond effective 4/6/2021
- $5 per hour
- 90-day sunset or yellow tier whichever comes first.
- Retaliation language
- Urgency ordinance
- Unanimous
Redwood City
- $5 dollar urgency ordinance
- 90 day sunset
- Includes big box stores like target and Walmart
- Retaliation language
- Unanimous vote
Benicia 4-1 championed by Strawbridge
- $5 urgency ordinance
- 60 days with option to extend
- Grocery only
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