Express Scripts prescribes Christmas layoffs for 365 workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1328085

12/15/2010

As Christmas approaches job news around the country is in flux. In Bensalem, Pennsylvania workers for prescription-drug company Express Scripts closed its doors on 365 workers Wednesday morning. The company announced plans to close the plant eight months ago citing new developments in technology making the plant obsolete. Workers complained that the company never offered them the opportunity to transfer. Under a severance agreement reached with the Service Employees International Union the laid-off workers will receive a lump payment of $10,000, five months of health care, and a week’s pay for each year of service. The company is threatening to close a second facility in the state which employs 500 workers if severe cuts to wages and benefits aren’t accepted by workers.

[udbcrzy2]

1. One worker for each day of the year - how cute

I've worked for them before and they really suck. I paid tri-care claims and later did patient assistance program. The workstations are sooo small, just enough space to pull out your chair and slide in. And don't think about using that computer mouse (says it takes too much time). If they catch you using your mouse too much they will take it away from you. They do have benefits though, but they play workers against each other. They keep raising the quota rate of work to be done until people are cheating (scanning stacks of work that is very easy - leaving the bad stuff for someone else) and the damn supervisors don't care. I say, well how long will it be before the supervisor becomes prey...