Price Rite Workers Rally for Respect, Fair Wages and Better Working Conditions at Providence Store

National AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler Rallies with Workers and Supporters

PROVIDENCE — Price Rite employees trying to secure better wages and benefits for their fellow workers will be joined by UFCW Local 328, Rhode Island Jobs for Justice and other national and Rhode Island labor organizations Friday for a rally in support of changing Price Rite for the better.

Price Rite runs 58 stores across eight states, including seven in Rhode Island, and employs thousands of hard-working men and women. Among the issues affecting many of the workers in Southern New England are low wages, inconsistent scheduling, unpaid sick leave, and other poor employment practices proliferated by stores like Price Rite.

“Price Rite not only hurts employees, families and their communities, but its low wage model hurts everybody in the retail industry,” said UFCW Local 328 President Tim Melia.
The campaign to “Change Price Rite for the Better” is part of regional and national efforts to highlight the need for retail companies, like Price Rite, to pay the hard-working men and women better wages, provide better benefits, offer consistent scheduling, and respect on the job.

National AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler will join the workers and their supporters tomorrow and is expected to offer brief remarks. Shuler is the first woman to be elected secretary treasurer, and is among the top three elected leaders of the AFL-CIO.