Marley Jay is a business news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Pharmacies are boring. Pharmacies are supposed to be boring. But lately, they might be getting too interesting for comfort. The normally staid business has been shaken awake by a series of nonunion 'wildcat strikes' over the last few weeks. In incidents scattered around the country, pharmacists have refused to go to work or walked off the job.
'This is a nationwide problem that pharmacists have been internally yelling about for years,' said Amanda Applegate, a licensed pharmacist and director of practice development with the Kansas Pharmacists Association. Her group spoke with some of the people who went on strike in Kansas City. Pharmacist Jennifer Morrow says she worked for CVS from 2013 to 2021.
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