WATCH: Express Scripts Employees Hold Candlelight Vigil for Good Jobs

Submitted by Labor Justice on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 11:13am
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With job loss and unemployment steadily on the rise throughout Pennsylvania, Express Scripts, a Fortune 500 company that brought in $799 million in profit last year, has threatened to shut down its Bensalem facility if workers refuse to accept significant cuts in wages and health care benefits. The jobs of over 1,000 pharmacists, pharmacy techs, customer service reps and production workers in Bensalem are on the line.

Express Scripts employees, who are members of Service Employees International Union 1199P, held a candlelight vigil to protest the company' threats. Employees spoke of their hard work and quality service as the backbone of Express Scripts and its soaring profits, and expressed the injustice in being asked to give up hard earned health care benefits and wages.

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Submitted by KatiSipp on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 2:32pm.

for coming, and for posting this video!

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Submitted by megan on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 7:45pm.

It was wonderful to meet you and the other Express Scripts workers yesterday. We want to stay in touch and continue to follow your struggle for fair wages, healthcare and respect as workers. Thanks for sharing your stories with us--- our struggles are so connected. Keep us posted on any new developments.

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