'Pharmageddon' could close hundreds of pharmacies as protest spreads
'Pharmageddon' could close hundreds of pharmacies as protest spreads
Organizers say that 900 pharmacists working for CVS and Walgreens may strike this week as they seek better working conditions.
The protests are that much more notable because the pharmacists don't have a union and aren't asking for better pay. They primarily want their employers to hire more staff to alleviate the workload and to eliminate policies that push them to work faster. They say those conditions are making it more likely they will make a mistake that could harm a patient.
Highlighting because people don't read articles - they are protesting to ensure patients are safe from the speed of greed. I for one would like my medication properly compounded and dosed. Good for these workers, get them more hands.
I even felt this in my hometown. Just about every pharmacy in town has lost 60-90% of its staff. Lines out the door for some of these places. And of course the one poor worker who stays gets to be berated by the imbecile senior population that thinks the world revolves around them.
...and even if you want to vote with your dollar and support a local independent pharmacy instead -- nope, you can't because they've been driven out of business!
This is planned for 3 days. They really need to unionize with this or it’s doomed.
I wish people would stop planning for an end date for these things, that's what people from the other site did and look where that got us lmfao
Good, these chains have abused pharmacies for years.
Good! Fuck these greedy megacorps!
My local CVS started closing for lunch in the past year. I've never seen a pharmacy do that (I'm sure some did).
The amount of coverage in scheduling is now such that one might take a lunch break to go pick up a script and walk away without it. Capitalism is being squeezed to the absolute limit. We're not getting more. We're getting less. It's time for this to become a primary talking point, but stupid mother fuckers are pulled toward fascism because they fail to blame the right people for their shortcomings.
I think they deserve a lunch break just like everyone else. And not all of locations are big enough to be able to staff through lunch breaks. My local place does it from 1 to 1:30. They have the right amount of staff the rest of the time as the line is never very long.
Of course they deserve a lunch break. It just used to be that there were enough people to keep the pharmacy open while people took lunch.
As another example, there are twelve or thirteen teller stations at a local bank. They haven't had more than two tellers any time I've been there in five years. Do I think they need to fill all stations? No. But two is clearly the minimum they can have without falling apart, and that's all they provide.
We're getting less customer service than we did in the past. Because corporations have realized that they can get away with it. We're basically captives who can't leave / shop around to find anything better. This is what capitalism creates and we're at the worst (so far) point of it.
Another reason all healthcare and pharmaceuticals in the US should be nationalized, and regulated.
Also, #fuckyourdividends
Pharmaceutical industry still takes in the HUGE profits.
Pharmacists used to make nearly 6 figures out of college in the mid 2000s. They do not good money these days.
It's beyond frustrating to jump through all the process hoops to get a shot or pick up a prescription (use our online scheduler, bla bla) and after going to the place they had the right vaccine, sure enough the appointments are running 40+ minutes behind and meanwhile it's march of the Karens trying to assert themselves while the skeleton crew on staff try to answer multiple phone calls at once
I mean yay, someone's getting extra in their dividends or something but seriously when I showed up 10 minutes early in order to not hold up the works, a 45 minute wait costs me a whole hour of watching staff radiate the same energy as beaten dogs while shitty people demand to see a manager and slow everything down
TBH I hope they all strike, hard.
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