04/28/2024

A Las Vegas CVS Becomes the First to Join New National Pharmacy Union

Its workers are now joining the Pharmacy Guild

A CVS Omnicare pharmacy in Las Vegas has become the first location to join a new national pharmacy union, a milestone for organizers trying to help thousands of U.S. pharmacy workers address what they call unsafe working conditions.

Nearly 30 pharmacy staff at the Las Vegas branch of CVS’s Omnicare won their union election on Thursday by a landslide margin of 87 percent to 13 percent, according to a press release from the guild. The pharmacists and pharmacy technicians there fill prescriptions for the elderly and other vulnerable patients at long-term care facilities across Nevada.

Those workers now join the Pharmacy Guild, which will represent them in labor negotiations with CVS.

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