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Yesterday AM, Popular Information published an exposé on @Darden, which owns @olivegarden

We told stories of workers who came in sick because otherwise they weren't paid

Yesterday PM, the company said it would provide paid sick leave to all 170K workers

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@darden @olivegarden Accountability journalism provides a megaphone for ordinary people who are willing to speak up.

In this case, it was Darden employees from around the country who told me the consequences of the company's refusal to provide sick leave.

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Change is possible — not after the next election, but right now.

Darden is a very large company. But it's just one company in a massive industry.

I'm going to keep working.

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Judd Legum
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1. I wanted to provide an update on my story about @kroger, the nation's largest supermarket chain that does not provide sick leave to all of its employees.

I contacted several Kroger reps days ago and heard nothing.

Then I published my piece...

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@kroger 2. Today, I finally heard from one of the people I contacted, Teresa Dickerson. She's the Kroger Corporate Affairs Manager for the Delta Division.

Her email had the subject line: "Inaccurate information regarding Kroger Delta Division"

Here was her message, in full:
@kroger 3. She attached the policy, which I've attached to this tweet.

But here was the problem.

I EXPLICITLY REPORTED ON THAT POLICY IN MY ORIGINAL PIECE.

AND IT IS NOT PAID SICK LEAVE.

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Judd Legum
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.@kroger is the biggest supermarket chain in the United States.

It has 453,000 employees and many receive no sick leave.

Even after 2 employees tested positive for COVID-19, @kroger still won't provide paid sick leave to everyone

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@kroger Instead of paid sick leave, @kroger is providing 2 weeks paid leave ONLY to people who test positive for COVID-19 or are placed under mandatory quarantine

This is insufficient to protect staff and the public, especially with little testing available

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Everyone is making major sacrifices to try to combat the spread of the virus. Corporations should be no exception

Sources in @kroger management tell me executives are celebrating a huge surge in sales.

The company can afford to provide paid sick leave

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Judd Legum
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.@kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the US.

It has 453K employees and many receive no sick leave.

Even after 2 employees tested positive for COVID-19, @kroger still won't provide paid sick leave to everyone

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@kroger .@kroger operates supermarkets under its own name and the following brands:

@HarrisTeeter
@DillonsGrocery
@MyKingSoopers
@Ralphs
@RalphsGrocery
@MarianosMarket
@MySmithsGrocery
@FrysFoodStores

Employees at these stores may not get paid sick leave

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To stop the spread of the coronavirus, personal responsibility won't be enough. We also need CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Last week, I covered the policies of @olivegarden

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Faisal Islam
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PM announcement at PMQs:

“Self isolating workers helping all of us by helping slow spread of the virus” so

will bring forward legislation for measures to allow payment of Statutory Sick Pay from first day rather than 4th day...

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Unclear now if this is a general change to the SSP rules, or if this only applies to coronavirus self-isolates.
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Popular Information's @JuddLegum has more on Facebook hiring former Fox producer Jennifer Williams "to head video strategy for Facebook News," noting that that team "is already facing serious questions about its ideological leanings and decision-making." popular.info/p/facebook-get…
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Yesterday - A Q movie?

1. What if Q and Q+ begin transforming Hollywood just in time for The Great Awakening?
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DC US Attorney Jessie K. Liu charges FBI agent with providing confidential law enforcement information as part of a bribery ring.

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FBI agent David Paitsel is accused of tapping a database restricted for use by law enforcement. Of course it is related to shady real estate transactions!
Supervisory Special Agent Paitsel was previously assigned to FBI HQ in DC, but is now assigned in Charlotte, NC.
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1. I’ve been thinking about the claim in last week’s Pacific Standard piece that Evergreen student protesters have “struggled to get their stories out”.
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2. This thread is a follow up to a fact checking thread I started last Thursday & finished on Saturday. It’s going to be really long. Will put it on Thread Reader after I’m done.
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3. Although I find the protesters’ narrative myopic, misleading, often hyperbolic, & sometimes outright false (based on my close study of the Evergreen meltdown & private conversations w/ Greeners), I thought I’d pull together a list of media appearances.
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