Grocery workers were on the front lines of the pandemic — so why so many still unvaccinated?
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic last year, almost 500 retail and meatpacking workers have died from Covid-19, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International labor union. Yet many workers whose colleagues got sick and even died during the depths of the pandemic are rejecting their employers’ pushes to get vaccinated.
“If McDonald’s requires the vaccine, I would be looking for employment elsewhere,” said Kenya Ahl, a department manager at a corporate-owned McDonald’s restaurant in Paynesville, Minnesota. McDonald’s announced in an internal memo this month that office workers will be Ahl, who has worked at McDonald’s for two years, said the company posted signs in the break room encouraging workers to get vaccinated. A vaccination reminder also pops up every time an employee logs on to the computers, she said. The company has provided webinars and reading materials to educate workers about the vaccines, along with four hours’ paid time off to get vaccinated.the Food and Drug Administration fully approved the Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose vaccine on Aug.
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