By Brooke Stephenson | Fox Business
Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California are now on strike, as they demand better pay and health care and to call out what they describe as the company engaging in bad-faith contract bargaining.
The strike began Friday and continued through the weekend, affecting four stores in Los Angeles and three others in Orange County. Striking workers outside a Los Angeles location told customers on Saturday not to cross the picket lines, according to The Associated Press.
Melissa Acosta, a pharmacy technician who is on the contract bargaining committee, claimed the company was “intimidating workers, observing them, getting in the way of them speaking to union representatives,” the outlet reported.
Despite the strike, the affected CVS locations have remained open and staffed by managers and nonunion employees.