Frontpage Mag It certainly didn’t take that long for America to go from record-low crime rates to reliving the worst of the seventies. And that means this kind of thing is normal now.
In her 37 years in the grocery industry, said Kim Cordova, a union president in Colorado, she had never experienced the level of violence that her members face today.
So when she was negotiating contracts for 21,000 grocery workers in Colorado this past winter, the usual issues of wages and scheduling were certainly on the table. But just as critical, if not more so, was safety.
“What happened with COVID?” said Cordova, president of Local 7 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. “People have changed. Sometimes I wonder if I am living in a Netflix movie. This can’t be real.”
The union negotiated a contract that ensures workers have the right to defend themselves if a customer attacks them…
