Commentary Comment: Retail workers are essential; treat them as such. Retail workers face low wages, short-staffing and threats from shoplifters that stores are ignoring.

Retail workers are underappreciated in the best of times. Now, they’re unsung heroes. Jobs once marked by drudgery are downright dangerous in the time of Covid-19. As always, workers go ...

Pre-pandemic, these workers might not have been essential in the public safety sense, but now merit the classification in a “we-can’t-function-in-without-them” way.

I’m hoping that these essential retailers finally realize how essential their shop floor workers are, not just during but after the crisis and finally start to reward them appropriately. It is ...

But for someone considered an “essential worker,” I’m certainly not treated like I’m essential. Retail workers are humans, just like everyone else. We have families and lives outside of work.

Retail workers are essential. ... More than 234,000 people work in retail in metro Phoenix making it this area’s third-largest employment sector.

A California retail worker was left with a bloody face and scared to do her job after she was allegedly attacked by a customer earlier this month. Now, Sam Clarke is running a Facebook support ...

During the pandemic, essential workers have become public heroes. These frontline workers include tens of millions of retail employees, from those who stock our grocery shelves to those filling ...

Retail employees were essential workers and took their responsibility seriously, from risking their lives at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to stepping up in the 1970s and ’80’s, ...

Retail workers going about their day being attacked for confronting shoplifters or being assaulted in their stores. The horrific videos and stories have become all too common. Instead of turning a ...

Many essential workers are immigrants and people of color making minimum wage, ... Workers in transportation, health care, and retail and grocery stores were among those who kept us going in 2020.

During the pandemic we all rooted for our essential health care workers, but how often do you hear about essential retail workers? I’ve worked at Macy’s for more than 15 years. I really like ...