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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 14, 2021 45
PCC Community Markets employees demonstrate April 14 outside the Edmonds store. (Photos courtesy of UFCW 21.)
About a dozen PCC Community Markets employees gathered outside the Edmonds store Wednesday afternoon to protest recent allegations that the Seattle-based food cooperative’s board is discouraging members from voting for two board candidates who are also PCC grocery workers,
The workers gathered outside the store at 9803 Edmonds Way, waving signs and handing out flyers stating that the co-op’s board is interfering with the upcoming board election.
The PCC employees running for election Donna Rasmussen and Laurae McIntyre – are two of five candidates vying for three PCC board positions. According to Rasmussen and McIntyre, the board has been distributing one-sided election materials favoring their preferred candidates, which include Metier Brewing CEO Rodney Hines and two incumbents Brad Brown and Catherine Walk
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 7, 2021
Donna Rasmussen and Laurae McIntyre
PCC’s customers and workers are like family, and PCC stores are essential parts of our communities.
But after PCC’s CEO opposed pandemic hazard pay, PCC frontline workers Donna Rasumussen and Laurae McIntire decided to run for election to the co-op’s board. They want to make sure they and their co-workers have a voice.
Because they talk to hundreds of customers each day, Donna and Laurae say they also want to communicate the positive and negative feedback they hear from PCC customers.
About Donna Rasmussen:
Donna is both a PCC member and worker. She brings more than 40 years of experience in direct customer service, including 7 years as a checker at PCC.
Employers can require the coronavirus vaccine, many holding off for now By Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times
Published: February 5, 2021, 10:30am
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At Google and Amazon, it’s “strongly encouraged.” At Trader Joe’s, it will earn employees extra pay. At the downtown Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, it will be a condition of returning to the office. Aegis senior living facilities will require it once vaccines are widely available.
As the coronavirus vaccine gradually becomes more accessible, businesses big and small are weighing whether to require their employees to get the shot.
For office employees and front-line workers, a vaccine requirement could mean safety and peace of mind as the economy starts to return to pre-pandemic levels. But a mandate could also turn off some workers who are skeptical of the vaccine and introduce new headaches as long the vaccine is in short supply.
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When you work and shop at a place like PCC you have higher expectations than at a national chain store. We are the Puget Consumer Cooperative – or PCC Community Markets – as we are re-branded. I have worked at Edmonds PCC since 2008. I have felt good about it as a union co-op grocery store worker helping to provide for my community. More recently, since the pandemic began, more people are recognizing that essential role.
That PCC remains successful is extraordinary in this pandemic.
We have kept up with consumer needs and renovated stores, while expanding business into the other areas through new stores.