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324 Andrea Zinder <br />President <br />International Vice President <br />Matt Bell <br />A Voice for Working California Secretary -Treasurer <br />March 2rd. 2021 <br />To the Mayor and City Council of Santa Ana <br />On behalf of the 20,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, including <br />over 550 essential workers in Santa Ana, I would like to express our support far the consideration of <br />establishing premium pay for Grocery and Drug retail workers. <br />It has been made abundantly clear during this pandemic that our members play a critical role in <br />providing necessary food, supplies and medicine to an anxious public. This has taken an enormous toll <br />on our membership. Currently 112 of our members who work in the grocery or drug retail industry in <br />Santa Ana have tested positive for COVID-19. That is 20% of our Santa Ana membership. Essential <br />workers live in dread that each shift could be the one where they are exposed to this deadly disease. <br />Yet they go to work every day. <br />Attached to this letter, please find petitions signed by 525 Santa Ana grocery and drug retail workers <br />calling on this Council to mandate Hero Pay for this industry. You are familiar with their stores and you <br />recognize some of their faces. These are the men and women who continue to put their health on the <br />line so that you and your neighbors are fed. We are calling on you to honor that sacrifice. <br />Albertsons — 2000 E. 171h Street <br />Vons-3650 S. Bristol Street <br />Food 4 Less — 315 E. First Street <br />Food 4 Less — 2140 S. Bristol Street <br />Stater Brothers — 2630 W. Edinger Street <br />Stater Brothers — 2360 N. Tustin Ave <br />CVS Pharmacy —1545 W. 171h Street <br />CVS Pharmacy —228 N. Harbor Blvd <br />CVS Pharmacy —1750 N. Grand Ave <br />CVS Pharmacy —102 N. Main Street <br />CVS Pharmacy-3911 S. Bristol Street <br />Rite -Aid Pharmacy — 1406 W. Edinger Ave <br />Rite -Aid Pharmacy —111 N. Main Street <br />Rite -Aid Pharmacy — 3325 S. Bristol Street <br />Sincerely, <br />UFCW UNION LOCAL 324 <br />Andrea Zinder <br />President <br />8530 Stanton Ave., P.O. Box 5004, Buena Park, CA 90622-5004 - (714) 995-4601 • (800) 244-UFCW • Fax (714) 995-8214 • www.ufcw324.orc <br />®�25 <br />