The money is a state grant, which will be paid out of the $875 million Community Investment Fund 2030. The grants are targeted to historically underserved communities throughout the state.
Union seeks hazard pay for grocery store workers across Western Washington KIRO 7 News Staff
Though grocery store workers are receiving additional hazard pay in Seattle and Burien, their union wants all grocery store workers across Western Washington to get that pay as well.
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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 21 held a news conference Tuesday morning announcing a campaign to make that happen.
The union said while grocery stores provided hazard pay to workers for a few months during the start of the pandemic, it was cut in May. Since then, grocery stores have refused to reinstate it, though workers have “more tasks, stress, challenges, profits, and as if there weren’t a risk of getting a deadly virus,” the union said in a news release.