Target (and Shipt)

Our “I don’t fuck with them” call will stand during the Shipt app walkout and boycott.

Source: News article
Reference:https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2020/04/03/target-to-start-limiting-customer-numbers-in.html

April 3rd, 2020

• Giving frontline staff hourly raises through at least May 2, as well as giving bonuses to 20,000 department managers in stores for the first time;
• Waiving its absenteeism policy to offer quarantine pay for 14 days and confirmed illness pay at 100 percent for 14 days;
• Giving staff 65 or older, pregnant or considered most vulnerable to serious COVID-19 complications fully paid leave up to 30 days;
• Providing front-line staff dedicated shopping hours in its stores.

UPDATE April 7, 2020

Target’s delivery app Shipt utilizes gig workers who are organizing a walkout Tuesday, April 7 and requesting customers boycott the app on Friday, April 10 in solidarity. For more details on their reasonable demands (paid sick time, hazard pay, protective gear) see: Target’s Delivery Workers Are Staging a Walkout (Vice’s Motherboard)

For more information on Shipt’s shitty history:
Target’s Delivery App Workers Describe a Culture of Retaliation and Fear (Also Motherboard)