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13 Jan, 7 tweets, 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: A leaked internal memo reveals that @Kroger executives were told in 2018 that most of the company’s workers live in poverty and rely on food stamps and other public aid to survive as a result of the company’s low pay.

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The presentation, titled “State of the Associate", found that “Most employees are considered to be living in poverty and need State Aid as in food stamps, free school lunch, etc. just to get by."

Kroger made $4 billion in profit in 2020 and projects an increase for 2021.
The report quotes an unnamed @Kroger worker from an internal survey:

“Something is wrong when the people who are actually making this company profitable are the ones deepest in poverty... I literally work at a grocery store and can’t afford to eat regularly."
The presentation also includes an internal analysis finding the stores that increased wages also had better employee retention and less turnover.
Another worker quoted in the report rebukes Kroger’s lack of pay hikes for long-time workers:

“A pay increase that’s more than 25 cents a year, inflation is driving costs up and pay scale isn’t keeping up. People 10 years with the company on food stamps doesn’t seem right.”
Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen made $22 million in 2020 — that's 909x what the median worker made, one of the largest CEO/worker pay gaps of any major U.S. company.

Meanwhile, inflation-adjusted wages for frontline workers have dropped in the past decade.

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13 Jan
UPDATE: @SenSanders and six other U.S. senators have sent a letter to @RichProducts in support of ice cream cake makers in California who have been on strike for more than two months.
Rich Products has refused to go back to the bargaining table since mid-December. @SenAlexPadilla, @SenWarren, @SenSherrodBrown , @SenMarkey, @SenBooker and @SenatorBaldwin signed onto the letter telling the company to bargain in good faith & come to a fair agreement.
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NEW: A survey of 10,000 Kroger supermarket workers reveals that 2/3 of employees are living in poverty and struggling to survive.

The grocery company's CEO made $20 million in 2021.

Meanwhile, 40% of workers can’t afford food and 14% have been homeless in the last year.
Kroger’s wages have declined up to 22% over the past 20 years after adjusting for inflation.

25% of Kroger workers say that they went hungry in the past year and 35% of Kroger workers say that they worry about being evicted. economicrt.org/publication/hu…
The company spent $1.3B on stock buybacks, but took hazard pay away after just 2 months.

When cities mandated hazard pay, Kroger closed stores rather than compensating employees who worked through the pandemic.
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Horrifying details are emerging about the tornado disaster at Amazon's warehouse in Illinois, where at least 6 workers were killed on the job.

Before he died, Larry Virden reportedly texted his girlfriend: "Amazon won’t let us leave." He leaves behind four children.
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13 Dec 21
Who is Elon Musk, Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021?

We spoke to factory workers at Tesla about what it’s really like working for the richest man in the world.

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BREAKING: The 1400 striking Kellogg’s workers have courageously voted to reject the contract offer from the breakfast giant.

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District managers visited the store Saturday and threatened to close the store if workers voted YES.
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