As the world faces the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, so too does the world’s largest retailer, Amazon. LOS ANGELES - According to a new internal report by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), at least 68 grocery workers have died and more than 10,000 have been infected or exposed to the novel coronavirus. RELATED: Walmart to give hourly employees another round of cash bonuses amid COVID-19 pandemic The UFCW is America’s largest food and retail union, representing 1.3 million workers in grocery, meatpacking, food processing and other industries.
During a national press call uploaded to YouTube, union officials called on major supermarket companies to reinstate hazard pay, citing a 200 percent rise in cases in the past