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To: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon
Walmart: Give all Workers Hazard Pay
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It’s clear that retail jobs have gotten much more dangerous and that Walmart needs to make drastic changes in response to the coronavirus crisis. Workers are taking a risk every day showing up to work to feed their families and serve our communities. We’re calling on Walmart to pay all workers at 1.5x the regular hourly wage for the duration of the pandemic. Walmart’s profits are through the roof and workers deserve to share in the wealth.
Why is this important?
Retail and grocery workers are taking big risks right now to serve our communities, putting their own health on the line to make sure we’re all able to get what we need to continue our lives.
But Walmart is failing its 1.5 million workers, despite us being deemed “essential.”
Thousands of Walmart workers have contracted COVID-19 and at least 21 have died. Workers are staffing stores every day with little protections and precautions other than a vest, mask, and some plexiglass at the registers. Meanwhile, Walmart is making record profits while continuing to avoid responsibility and pay poverty wages.
Walmart’s bottom line isn’t more important than the health and safety of its workers and the communities that we serve. Workers deserve to be compensated for the extra risks they are taking on. Walmart must institute hazard pay of 1.5x the regular hourly wage for the duration of the pandemic.
But Walmart is failing its 1.5 million workers, despite us being deemed “essential.”
Thousands of Walmart workers have contracted COVID-19 and at least 21 have died. Workers are staffing stores every day with little protections and precautions other than a vest, mask, and some plexiglass at the registers. Meanwhile, Walmart is making record profits while continuing to avoid responsibility and pay poverty wages.
Walmart’s bottom line isn’t more important than the health and safety of its workers and the communities that we serve. Workers deserve to be compensated for the extra risks they are taking on. Walmart must institute hazard pay of 1.5x the regular hourly wage for the duration of the pandemic.