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Three months after increasing thank-you pay for its employees, Trader Joe’s will slash the extra pay by half. The pay was temporarily raised by $4 for hourly workers in February. Now $2 is being taken away.
That was quite a bump in hourly wages in February. Hourly workers do not usually see $4 per hour increases in pay. Since the pandemic has entered a new phase with the availability of vaccines for those who want them, the hourly workers will be thanked a little less, apparently. Back in March 2020, Trader Joe’s gave its employees an additional $2 per hour in “thank you” pay for working during the COVID-19 pandemic. That was followed by the additional hourly pay in February. These increases in pay fell in line with some cities that were passing “hazard pay” ordinances for grocery workers. The kicker for Trader Joe’s employees is that the hazard pay ordinances applied to large grocery store chains. Trader Joe’s doesn’t fall into tha
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Starting on Wednesday, March 10, Texas restaurants and bars will be permitted to operate with no state-mandated mask requirements, capacity limits, nor social distancing measures, as ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott, and the Austin service industry is mad. Several local groups Restaurant Organizing Project, the Texas Service Industry Coalition, the Amplified Sound Coalition, Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, and Austin Mutual Aid held a rally outside of the State Capitol on Monday, March 8 to express their frustrations with the lack of protections and support from state officials.
During the rally, service industry workers shared their fears and concerns about having to work without any COVID-related safety measures while also not currently being eligible for the vaccine. They’re asking Gov. Abbott to delay reopening Texas until 70 percent of essential workers are vaccinated. Currently, 91 percent of the entire Texas population hasn’t been vaccinate