ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「The race to distribute vaccines and the emergence of more contagious variants of Covid-19 have put a renewed spotlight on the plight of grocery workers in the U.S. The grocery store industry has boomed in the past year as Americans have stayed home and avoided restaurants. But in most cases, that has not translated into extra pay for its workers. And employees have largely been left off vaccine priority lists. After Long Beach, Calif., mandated hazard pay for grocery workers, the grocery giant Kroger responded last week by saying it would close two locations. And now, even as experts warn people to minimize time spent in grocery stores because of new coronavirus variants, The New York Times found only 13 states that had started specifically vaccinating those workers. The Brookings Institute found that 13 of the largest retail and grocery companies in the U.S. earned $17.7 billion more in the first three quarters of 2020 than they did a year earlier, but most stopped offering extra compensation to their associates in the early summer. The United Food and Commercial Workers union said that at least 28,700 grocery workers across the country had been infected with or exposed to the coronavirus, and that at least 134 of the workers had died from the virus. Now colleagues are signing cards for one another when relatives die from Covid-19 and dealing with working in busy stores where customers sometimes refuse to wear masks. Tap the link in our bio to read more about the challenges facing grocery workers during the pandemic. Toni Ward Sockwell photographed by @nickoxfordphoto; Bertha Ayala photographed by @maggiehshannon; Lisa Harris photographed by @matteich.」2月10日 4時32分