🚨UPDATE🚨

As this situation has progressed, our fundamental needs as workers have become more urgent. COVID-19 poses a very real threat to the safety of our workforce and our customers. We cannot wait for politicians, institutions, or our own management to step in to protect us.

We call on all Whole Foods Market employees to engage in a mass sick out on:

🚨MARCH 31st🚨

We will be staging this sick out earlier than initially planned. Whole Foods employees are already getting sick. We must act NOW.

On March 31st, DO NOT GO TO WORK. Whole Foods has temporarily relaxed its strict attendance policy, which means that team members can participate in this act of protest without fear of reprisal. We encourage all retail workers at other companies to join us in this act of solidarity.

We call upon Amazon to allocate the necessary resources for us to do our jobs safely. We need:

-Guaranteed paid leave for all workers who isolate or self-quarantine instead of coming to work.

-Reinstatement of health care coverage for part-time and seasonal workers.

-Increased FSA funds to cover coronavirus testing and treatment for all team members, including part-time and seasonal.

-Guaranteed hazard pay in the form of double pay during our scheduled hours.

Implementation of new policies that can facilitate social distancing between workers and customers.

-Commitment to ensuring that all locations have adequate sanitation equipment and procedures in place.

-Immediate shutdown of any location where a worker tests positive for COVID-19. In such an event, all workers should continue to receive full pay until the store can safely reopen.

Amazon and its subsidiary Whole Foods dared to keep open an Amazon warehouse and two Whole Foods stores where employees tested positive for COVID-19. We must prioritize the health of our workers over short-term financial gain.

We are working harder than we have ever worked. We are putting our lives at risk. We deserve to have our needs met. Let’s make sure it happens.

In love and solidarity,

Whole Worker’s National Organizing Committee

📢Older petition below📢:

Accept the demands of retail workers worldwide and stop violating the labor rights of workers. Our leaders’ response to the coronavirus pandemic thus far has made one thing abundantly clear: they care more about maintaining their profits than the health, well-being and even the lives of their employees.