UFCW, Health Experts Call for Nationwide Mask Mandates

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has joined over 100 health experts in a call to enact public mask mandates in all 50 states to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. In a full page advertisement in the New York Times, the organization shared recent research that suggests that public mask wearing is most effective at stopping the spread of the virus when the vast majority of the public uses masks.

In a statement, UFCW International president Marc Perrone said, “As COVID-19 spikes across the country continue to put America’s frontline workers at risk, it is time for governors, members of Congress, and the Trump Administration to step up and make public mask mandates the law in all 50 states.”

Perrone continued, “In every grocery store in America, frontline workers are continuing to put themselves in harm’s way to make sure our families have the food we need. Without immediate action, these brave workers will continue to get sick and die. The science is clear—masks are the most powerful tool we have to stop the spread of COVID-19 and keep both workers and shoppers safe.”

Related: UFCW: 29,000 Frontline Workers Have Been Infected or Exposed to COVID-19; UFCW Demands Hazard Pay From Retail CEOs.

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