Grocery workers say morale is at an all-time low: ‘They don’t even treat us like humans anymore’

Grocery workers say morale is at an all-time low: ‘They don’t even treat us like humans anymore’

This spring, for the first time, Angel Manners found purpose and pride at the supermarket where she has worked the past decade. Customers praised her as a hero for putting herself at risk during the pandemic. Bosses boosted her hourly pay by $2. Suddenly, her job was essential.Support our journalism. Subscribe today.arrow-rightNearly five months in, and it is all gone.“In the last month, we've lost our hazard pay, and people are quitting every day,” said Manners, 43, who processes vendor deliveries at a Meijer store in northern Kentucky. “Those of us who are left are really stretched thin — working so much harder for $11.50 an hour.” Grocer workers across the country say morale is crushingly low as the pandemic wears on with no end in sight. Overwhelmed employees are