Employees at Stop & Shop and Walmart Strike Due to Low Wages and Overwork | Eater

"On April 11, more than 31,000 grocery workers at roughly 240 regional locations walked out under the United Food and Commercial Workers to protest management proposals that would raise employee health-care costs, reduce pension contributions for many part-time workers, eliminate premium holiday pay and freeze raises. Management framed the cuts as necessary to stay competitive even though the parent company reported about $2 billion in profits the prior year. The action became the chain’s longest strike (lasting ten days) and had immediate commercial impact — store visits fell by about 75% the first weekend — underscoring broad shopper solidarity and demonstrating that labor disputes can sharply disrupt operations and public trust." - Jaya Saxena