MADISON, WI (WRN) – The chief lobbyist for the Wisconsin Grocers’ Association wants grocery workers closer to the front of the line for COVID-19 shots.
Brandon Scholz says the people who stock the shelves and work the check-out lines have been considered essential employees for the past ten months, and he wants to know why they’re being left-out of the next round of coronavirus vaccines.
“We weren’t asked, we weren’t consulted, we weren’t given any options. We were just told that we were no longer essential, that grocers would be included in the general public.”
The Department of Health Services is finalizing who will be in the next group, known as Phase 1b.
Scholz says he can’t believe that prisoners and mink farmers are further ahead in line.
