'It is time for Kroger to go back to the negotiating table and reach an agreement with the union,' said SenSanders.
and slammed the company's management for offering low-wage employees"insulting" raises while paying CEO Rodney McMullen over $20 million during the pandemic.In ato McMullen, Sanders wrote that"if Kroger can afford to pay you over $20 million and can afford to hand out $1.
"Your workers in Colorado tell me they have worked hard and been loyal to your company. Some have worked for your stores for 15 or 20 years and earn less than $20 per hour," the Vermont senator continued."It is time for Kroger to go back to the negotiating table and reach an agreement with the union that is fair and that treats grocery store workers with the respect and the dignity that they deserve.
More than 8,000 employees of Kroger-owned King Soopers grocery stores in Colorado walked off the job last week after their union—United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7—rejected Kroger's"King Soopers is enjoying record profits while leaving its workers to struggle with low wages," said Kim Cordova, president of the union."Grocery workers ensure that our communities have access to food, but they cannot even afford to feed their own families. This is grossly unfair.
"Kroger's current low-wage, part-time workforce strategy relies on poorly-paid, part-time workers with constantly changing schedules," the report found."Even though food surrounds Kroger grocery workers every hour on their job, over three-quarters of Kroger workers are food insecure... More than two-thirds of Kroger workers struggle for survival due to low wages and part-time work schedules.
Early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, Kroger offered workers a $2-an-hour hazard raise—which the company left in place for just two months before
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