Today, on the eve of Workers Memorial Day, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents thousands of essential and frontline workers across the United States, called out multiple industries for their slow response to COVID-19. The RWDSU has lost 15 members to COVID-19, who worked for employers whose actions were too little and too late to stop the spread of the virus at the workplace. The union also holds OSHA and the CDC responsible - timely and appropriate action could have helped save the lives of RWDSU members…

Today, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents thousands of poultry processing workers across the southern United States, called on Koch Foods to do better by their workers and demanded that they come to the table and negotiate health and safety terms to be followed during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as critical “essential” pay…

“Macy’s should not be spending millions on fireworks displays while its own workforce is out of work. They are putting New Yorkers at risk in order to create a nationally televised commercial for themselves, and using our city as a backdrop. If they really cared about New Yorkers, they would be spending that money on healthcare coverage for the hard-working employees that made them successful for decades,” said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU).

Today, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), which represents 6,300 workers at Macy’s Inc.’s department stores, including workers at Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s flagship stores in Manhattan, demanded the company extend the current contracts for workers while the nation weathers the COVID-19 pandemic…