Nearly 30 pharmacy staff at the Las Vegas branch of CVS’s Omnicare will now join The Pharmacy Guild, which will represent them in labor negotiations with…
It's a huge step in a broader effort to help thousands of U.S. pharmacy workers organize to address what they call unsafe working conditions.
"We're going to try to get a best-in-the-industry contract for these people that have trusted our union to represent them. It's a historic win and a very decisive one," Shane Jerominski, a community pharmacist and co-founder of The Pharmacy Guild, told CNBC.Like the walkout effort, the Pharmacy Guild aims to help pharmacy staff address what many employees call unsafe staffing levels and increasing workloads throughout the industry that put both employees and patients at risk.
Omnicare, which CVS acquired in 2015, is not a public-facing pharmacy like most of the chain's nearly 10,000 locations. There are Omnicare pharmacies in 49 states, according to CVS's website. "It's not specific to Omnicare, the problems they were expressing were the same problems I'm hearing across the country. It's ubiquitous across all major chains," Jerominski said."You can only ask a company to support you for so long … This is the reason why the walkouts happened. They finally said 'No, we are going to get the help that we demand.'"
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