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Contact: Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO, 617 803-0799, rand.wilson@gmail.com
Craig Merrilees, ILWU, 510 774-5325, craig@ilwu.org
Bill Epstein, UFCW, 610 505-6105, bepstein@ufcw1776.org

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Rite Aid employees and community supporters are organizing a nationwide "Day of Action" on Wednesday,
December 15 to focus public attention on the company¶s culture of corporate greed and its assault on workers'
living standards and job rights.
Dozens of actions are being scheduled at Rite Aid locations across the country, including stores in New York,
Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, Florida, California, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.
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†V Rite Aid's decision to hike its CEO's compensation to $4.5 million despite the company's poor performance.
†V ´he company's effort to impose huge cost increases on workersVforVhealth insurance.
†V Rite Aid's disturbing pattern of delays and difficulty in reaching fair agreements with workers.
†V ´he company's conversion of good jobs into low-wage positions with few benefits and no rights on the job.
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ÃV In Cleveland, OH, executives are trying to dramatically increase employee health care costs. ´he company
announced plans to impose higher costs on Dec. 1 that could lead to a possible strike by workers next year.

ÃV In Lancaster, CA, Rite Aid executives stalled talks with 500 warehouse employees for nearly two years.
Now officials are proposing to raise employee health care costs by nearly 300 percent.
ÃV In Rome, NY, Rite Aid is closing a distribution facility that pays family-sustaining wages and benefits and
provides workers with a voice on the job. Work is being shifted to a nearby location that pays low wages
with few benefits and no job rights.

ÃV In Pennsylvania, thousands of Rite Aid workers are trying to reach a fair settlement.
´he December 15 "National Day of Action" is being organized by the International Longshoreman and
Warehouse Workers, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the AFL-CIO, Jobs with Justice and United
Students Against Sweatshops.
On November 30, a letter of concern was sent to Rite Aid CEO John ´. Standley, urging him to meet with
workers and community groups to "discuss our concerns and explore constructive ways to work together to help
the company and employees to move forward in a challenging environment." Rite Aid failed to respond to the
letter that was signed by ´om Robertson, President of UFCW Local 880 in Cleveland, OH; Wendell W. Young,
IV, President of UFCW Local 1776 in Pennsylvania; and ILWU Vice President Ray Familathe in California.

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