Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay

Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay

There are more Dollar Stores across the United States than any other chain. They vastly outnumber “Walmarts, CVS pharmacies, and McDonald’s across America.” They’ve been praised as the only option available in food deserts, but panned for low wages, poor working conditions, and as clearinghouses for cheap consumer goods that make them targets of crime. As Katie Jane Fernelius reports for Oxford American, some workers have had enough of Dollar Ge…