Though the threat of COVID-19 has not ended and grocery store workers otherwise considered essential are on the frontlines of this pandemic, several major grocery retailers—including the largest grocery chain Krogers—are ending its extra $2 per hour hazard pay for workers.
The UFCW, the union that represents most grocery store workers in the U.S., has reported that 65 grocery workers have died from the coronavirus and nearly 10,000 have been exposed or infected.
An Amazon worker died at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Indianapolis last week, making him the seventh Amazon warehouse worker to die after contracting COVID-19.
When Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of operations, was interviewed by 60 minutes two weeks ago, he was asked what he thought was the total number of infections at the company.
Video goes viral of Black delivery driver in Oklahoma City interrogated by White HOA president
A Facebook live video that has gone viral, shows the president of the Homeowners Association of Ashford Hills in Northeast Oklahoma City David Stewart using his car to block Black delivery driver Travis Miller to prevent him and a co-worker from driving out of the neighborhood.