CVS pharmacists walking off the job to protest working conditions
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CVS Health is contending with walkouts by pharmacists protesting working conditions and closing down multiple drugstores in and around Kansas City, Missouri.
The nation's largest retail pharmacy chain saw a dozen of its locations shut down unexpectedly on Sept. 21 and Sept. 22 in protests that spread this week to include nearly two dozen pharmacists across the Kansas City metropolitan area, published reports and advocates say.
"These issues have been ongoing for over 10 years across all the big chains, and exponentially worsened during the pandemic with increased services such as COVID vaccinations and testing while simultaneously having staff cuts and hours shortened," Lannie Duong, a clinical pharmacist in California who advocates on behalf of pharmacy workers, said in an email.
