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Around a thousand pharmacy workers across the country have walked off the job as part of a strike to protest conditions.The so-called "Pharmageddon" series of walkouts at pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens stores started Monday, Oct. 30, and is expected to continue at least through the middle of the week. Around 900 people from about 10 states could participate, organizers of the ongoing protest told NBC News. A growing workload and understaffing are the main reasons for the protest, organizers say, noting that the pharmacy workers are not unionized.In a statement to KDKA in Pittsburgh, CVS said it is...

To most readers of this column, the question is absurd. The reason is not because the question is, in fact, absurd; it is because most readers of this column are conservative, and many are religious. Am I implying that most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong? Yes, I am. As incredible as this assertion is to just about all religious people and virtually all conservatives, most leftists do not believe stealing is wrong. Since I always draw a distinction between those on the Left and liberals, let me add that I suspect most liberals think stealing is wrong. But...

<p>The Swiss cuckoo clock is ticking for Congress and White House to give tax reform more than lip service.</p> <p>The Walgreen Co. drugstore chain got its start nearly a century ago in downstate Dixon, Ill., before moving its corporate headquarters to Chicago and eventually to north suburban Deerfield.</p>

Walgreen Co. on Tuesday said it plans to shutter 76 unprofitable drugstores by August as part of a plan to save $40 million to $50 million per year beginning in fiscal 2015. The drugstore chain, the nation's largest, declined to specify the locations of the stores slated to close aside from saying they're "spread across the country." Walgreen, based in Deerfield, IL, said it will confirm the closures in the coming months after it notifies employees. Most stores that will close either have had other Walgreen locations open in the same area or have seen real estate values decline since...

Walgreen Co said on Monday it will provide a month´s supply of certain prescriptions at no upfront cost to U.S. participants who have not yet received a plan identification number under President Barack Obama´s signature healthcare law. The offering comes as U.S. government officials struggle to roll out the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Myriad enrollment problems have dogged the site´s website, HealthCare.gov, since its October launch and many insurance companies have said they are not getting accurate enrollee information to be able to process required forms. Walgreen, the largest drug store chain in the United States, said

Walgreens is back on the "Nice" list of companies that recognize, rather than censor, Christmas, according to an announcement this week. The drugstore chain, which had come under fire for using "holiday" in its promotional campaigns, confirmed that it will be using the word "Christmas" more this season. "During the month of December, there will be greater use of ‘Christmas’ in our store and online. We completely agree that while others celebrate different holidays, we should use the word ‘Christmas’ to describe items we are selling for Christmas decorations and gifts," Tiffany Washington, a spokesperson for Walgreens, said to Liberty...

As I have stated in the past, I DO NOT recommend you sit down with the news media to be interviewed following a gunfight. However, I would be remiss in my duties to educate you on what happens IN and AFTER a gunfight if I did not share this post gunfight interview with you. This is a great interview that demonstrates many of the key characteristics of those who command and control their destiny versus those who fall prey to random acts of violence. Watch this extremely educational and intriguing post-gunfight video and see if you can spot WHY this...

LINCOLN - A citizen's fatal shooting of a would-be robber in Omaha has sparked a debate over whether Nebraska should join three other states and do away with training and permit requirements to carry concealed handguns. Harry J. McCullough III, a 32-year-old drugstore customer, shot one robber who was holding a sawed-off shotgun and apprehended another. McCullough did not possess a state permit to carry a concealed handgun. He probably would be ineligible for such a permit because of his 1997 misdemeanor conviction for carrying a concealed weapon. Many credit the actions of the former security guard with preventing the...

This is a video of Harry James McCullough's attorney explaining what happened in the Nebraska Walgreen shooting. It takes a long time to load, and you have to watch a commercial first, but I found it fascinating because it had all kinds of details missing from the news reports. It did miss that one of his rounds went down the barrel of the short barreled shotgun.

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Walgreen, America’s largest drugstore retailer, may call itself “the pharmacy America trusts,” but at least one federal commission would like to disagree. The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Walgreens on Wednesday afternoon, claiming that the company discriminated against thousands of African American employees by denying promotions and assigning workers to low-performing stores.

For years, Janey Karp has battled depression and anxiety with the help of prescription drugs. Though millions of Americans do the same, Karp admits she is intensely private and can't help but feel stigmatized for needing medication to feel normal. So when the 53-year-old Palm Beach resident read the Walgreens printout attached to her prescription last week for the sleep aid Ambien, she couldn't believe her eyes. Typed in a field reserved for patient information and dated March 17, 2005, was "CrAzY!!" In another field, dated Sept. 30, 2004, it read: "She's really a psycho!!! Do not say her name...

CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is filing lawsuits on behalf of four Illinois pharmacists who were fired from Walgreens for their opposition to filling prescriptions for the morning-after pill. Americans United for Life (AUL) said the plaintiffs were asked to sign a paper agreeing to dispense the drug, which they believe can cause abortions in early pregnancies. When they refused to sign the paper, they were terminated. Those firings violated the Illinois Rights of Conscience Act, AUL claimed. "Walgreens is trampling on the civil rights of employees who are protected from discrimination under Illinois law. These pharmacists were fired because...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Four pharmacists who refused to sign a pledge promising to dispense the morning-after birth-control pill sued Walgreen drug stores Friday, alleging they were illegally fired. The lawsuits accuse Walgreen Co. of violating the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act. The pharmacists were being represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, a public-interest group founded by evangelist Pat Robertson. A new state rule requires pharmacies that sell federally approved contraceptives to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control "without delay" if they have the medication in stock. The rule is being challenged in federal court. In...

Saint Louis -- Walgreen Co. engaged in religious discrimination by "effectively firing" three Illinois pharmacists who refused to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception, a public-interest group alleged Wednesday. The American Center for Law and Justice, founded by evangelist Pat Robertson, said it had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The group said the pharmacists were put on unpaid leave Nov. 28 because the drug store chain said they violated a state rule mandating that such prescriptions be filled. "Since the pharmacists believe that human life begins at conception, they conclude that dispensing such drugs would require them...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Four Illinois pharmacists have found out there is a price to pay for exercising their pro-life convictions. The Walgreen Co. placed four of its pharmacists on indefinite, unpaid leave Nov. 28, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The four, all working at Walgreen stores in the Illinois suburbs east of St. Louis, had declined to abide by a state rule that requires pharmacists to fill prescriptions for contraceptives, including the “morning-after” pill, even if it violates their consciences. Many people with pro-life views consider the “morning-after” pill, also known as emergency contraception, to be an abortifacient because it not only...

A Southern Illinois abortion foe, backed by her local Catholic diocese, is asking consumers to pull their prescriptions from Walgreens until four pharmacists, on unpaid leave for refusing to agree to fill orders for the morning-after contraceptive pill, are reinstated. Ann Polka, manager for the Belleville Diocese's Project Rachel, a post-abortion healing program, is also asking regional residents to refrain from doing other shopping at the chain's stores. "This is an unjust action," Polka told the Belleville, Illinois, News-Democrat. "They are being let go because they couldn't in good conscience dispense the drugs." At issue is the Plan B morning-after...

(AP) Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain by revenue, said it has put four Illinois pharmacists in the St. Louis area on unpaid leave for refusing to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception in violation of a state rule. The four cited religious or moral objections to filling prescriptions for the morning-after pill and "have said they would like to maintain their right to refuse to dispense, and in Illinois that is not an option," Walgreen spokeswoman Tiffani Bruce said. A rule imposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich in April requires Illinois pharmacies that sell contraceptives approved by the U.S. Food and...

About 1,200 pharmacists at 400 Walgreen’s stores in northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, a market where the $37.51 billion Deerfield-based company has an estimated 54 percent market share, went on strike at 10 p.m. Wednesday. "There has regrettably been no movement by Walgreen’s on the critical issues raised by the union," Charles Sauer, executive director of the National Pharmacists Association, said in a statement Wednesday as the strike deadline neared. "As a result, the strike will begin as scheduled tonight at 10 p.m." How can college educated workers earning six figure incomes be unionized? Isn't the purpose of union labor...

The most valuable real estate in a retail store is right at the checkout counter where impulse purchases happen. Anything a store puts here has a huge advantage in sales. I just returned from the Walgreens store in Fountain Hills AZ, where they had a small display of Farenheit 9/11 DVDs right next to the cash register. This was the only movie I saw in that vicinity. Since Walgreens isn't a movie store, it's not like F9/11 was stacked in with other DVDs. It was the only DVD there. Vendors work overtime trying to get their product placed in such...