Today, a fledgling independent union of pharmacists is launching the first-ever nationwide walkout of these critical health care workers.

After being forced to work on the pandemic front lines distributing medicines to millions of sick COVID patients, including hundreds of millions of vaccines, pharmacists have had enough, and are fighting back in unprecedented ways.

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“CVS doesn’t just own pharmacy, they also own Aetna, the big insurance company, and they own Caremark, which is like a middleman in the pharmaceutical space,” says Matt Stoller, the director of research at the American Economic Liberties Project, who has written extensively about pharmacy consolidation in his anti-monopoly newsletter BIG.