We begin with Gratitude.

Thank you for your support. Please take some time to read through ALL our updates. Please continue to share with family, friends, and your community. We are all in this together.

To those who commented, thank you. We are reading ALL of them and we see you and we hear you. As other are starting to hear your screams, we must continue to scream, and scream louder.

Please take sometime to support our neighbours at Hobbylobby & Joann's

#shameonmichaels

Media:

https://abc7chicago.com/health/chicago-area-workers-raise-questions-about-essential-businesses-during-stay-at-home-order/6040297/

https://usa-newnews.com/new-news/in-leaked-memo-michaels-executives-refuse-to-close-stores-and-tell-employees-they-must-be-here-for-the-makers-amid-the-coronavirus/

https://www.businessinsider.com/michaels-employees-must-continue-working-coronavirus-2020-3

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/coronavirus-pandemic-employers-consider-work-essential_n_5e7a6187c5b6d01bd1537506?ri18n=true

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/continuing-coverage/coronavirus/local-coronavirus-news/sex-toys-envelopes-crafts-being-supplied-by-ohios-essential-employers?fbclid=IwAR3Yrz3YHiGLnB7FaFstDVIVbNie5PLEm_L0ZeGTFjlkp3wh9K9fxGOiLFU

Civic Duty:

Do you see something that isn’t right? Please make it your civic duty to report it to the appropriate authorities. One decision can impact thousands.

Altruism is something that we need to practice even though it wasn’t practiced with us.

‘Where there is unity, there is always victory.’ -

Publilius Syrus

Idleness:

Micheals continues delay and ignore all outcries from their employees serving in stores and the distribution centres. We demand that you address the following:

1. Close stores BEFORE governments mandates all non-essential businesses to close.
2. Make clear and consistent statements on how you plan on supporting ALL your employees, especially those who are hourly with no benefits, address compensation during isolation, quarantine, lockdown, and closures. 
3. Stop telling employees to use their vacation hours or sick days as compensation when none of those are applicable.
4. Acknowledge that Personal Protection Equipment, hand sanitizers, and other supplies are more crucial for medical workers trying to save lives than it is for the operation of your stores.
5. Proactively be apart of the solution, follow medical professionals who are urging closures. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/surgeon-general-has-coronavirus-warning-week-it-s-going-get-n1166421?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR326AthQ9B9-KpGva2xtdIeKV3OR29SXmsaEXD2YMhbBV6mi3Ll6VJQfhk

Mark and Ashley:

We, as a community brought together by pandemic, are willing to support our communities that we serve by doing what is right. You leave yourself very little time do to the right thing, and history is beginning to not look kindly upon you.

Resources:

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Michaels/reviews

Micheals Ethics Hotline: 1-888-226-3443

https://fortune.com/2020/03/20/essential-workers-government-list-employees-coronavirus/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-paid-sick-leave.html

Q4 2019 Michaels Companies Inc Earnings Call (Yahoo Finance)

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