The votes at the CVS stores signal growing momentum in a movement to help thousands of U.S. pharmacy workers address what they call unsafe working conditions.
Pharmacy staff at two CVS retail stores in Rhode Island voted to join a new national pharmacy union called The Pharmacy Guild.
Pharmacy workers at locations open 24 hours a day in Wakefield and Westerly won their union elections, making them the first stores to unionize in CVS's, according to a release from the union. It comes a month after a CVS Omnicare pharmacy in Las Vegas — which is not customer facing"These are the first brick-and-mortar classic CVS model" stores to join the union, Shane Jerominski, a community pharmacist and co-founder of the Pharmacy Guild, told CNBC.
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