“One Job Should Be Enough”: How 9,000 Grocery Workers Are Banding Together in Minnesota

“One Job Should Be Enough”: How 9,000 Grocery Workers Are Banding Together in Minnesota

Monica Duque never knows how many hours she is going to get in a given week. She works at the Jerry’s Cub Foods on East Lake Street at the front of the store, helping customers, overseeing cashiering, and running online shopping. She finds out her hours, she explains, “when the schedule is posted on Friday, for the week after next.”  “There is no consistency,” says the 24 year old, which makes it hard to save money, or plan much for the future. …