NPhA
Formed in 1968, the National Pharmacists Association (NPhA) represents Walgreens pharmacists in Chicagoland. The NPhA affiliated with the Chicago Laborers' District Council in October 2023.
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Walgreens Pharmacist Workplace Violation Form
Please use this form to notify the Union if you believe Walgreens has violated our collective bargaining agreement. This form DOES NOT go to Walgreens, rather it goes to our UNION. The information will be reviewed by our lawyer, and a Union Representative will be in touch.
Office Contact Information
Office: (630) 288-5082
Email: npha@liunachicago.org
Joseph Pignataro, President: nphapresident@npha.com
999 McClintock Drive
Suite 300
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Union Officers & Staff
Joseph Pignataro, President
Paul Gallagher, Vice President
Malinka Nenova, Treasurer
Robert Kobleski, Secretary
Howard Siegel, Sergeant-At-Arms/Representative for Staffing Review
Membership Meetings & CE Events
You must be a current member in good standing to attend.
Announcements & News
April 29, 2025
SPECIAL BID NOTICE FOR 80 HOUR STAFF POSITION
STORE #215, 3045 W. 26th St, Chicago, IL 60623
Pharmacy Hours for the Store: 9am-9pm, M-F & 9-5 S-S
Any pharmacist interested in the position needs to complete this special bid form and send it to the addresses on the form before May 15, 2025.
List of Biddable Stores
August 13, 2024 - Annual Store Bidding Notice
2024-2025 Annual Bid Period: September 10-October 10, 2023
This is just a heads up. The annual bidding period is coming soon. If you are interested in being eligible for any full-time, single-store locations, you must submit your bid September 10 through October 10, 2024.
We’ll send an email with the actual bid form on September 10 and post it on this page.
Even if you are content with your current status, you never know what the future holds. In other words, “better safe than sorry”! You can always reject a bid if you change your mind, but you will not be able to place bids on existing stores for another year if you do not do so at this time.
You may place a maximum of twelve bids. All pharmacists who average at least twelve hours weekly are eligible to bid. Interns who were just registered, or who will be registered before November 1, 2024, should also bid.
Bids postmarked or emailed before September 10, 2024, or after October 10, 2024, will be invalid. Bids submitted in this bid period will become effective November 1, 2024, and remain in effect through October 31, 2025.
For your convenience, you can see the store listing here.
Regardless of where you are working now, you may place a bid on any location in any district or area of preference.
If new store locations open during the coming year, a special bid period will take place at that time. Any special bids for new stores that have been sent separately during this past year will now appear under the current store listing. Keep in mind that those special bids covered only the initial placement and will no longer be in effect after October 31, 2024. If you want to be considered for openings after that date, you will need to place a regular bid now. Finally, if you have resubmitted or changed your bids due to a position displacement in the past year, you will also need to resubmit your bids at this time.
August 8, 2024 - Walgreens in the News
Walgreens issued an 8K (an SEC financial filing) yesterday saying it is "currently evaluating a variety of options with respect to VillageMD in light of ongoing investments by the Company in VillageMD’s businesses and VillageMD’s substantial ongoing and expected future cash requirements. These options could include a sale of all or part of the VillageMD businesses, possible restructuring options and other strategic opportunities." The 8K is here - https://investor.walgreensbootsalliance.com/static-files/d13137b6-4aa0-43e5-bd06-0d6143c4d464. New story here - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walgreens-considering-full-sale-villagemd-090228707.html
Walgreens sold $750 million in unsecured bonds yesterday. Its credit rating is so bad, that the offer was at 8.125% (meaning investors will get paid back at that rate, which is over 4% higher than what normal bonds are currently selling at). Bloomberg actually called them junk bonds - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walgreens-kicks-off-600-million-122443153.html. It is using the money to pay off bonds that it was able to sell at 3.8% (meaning it is paying way more (8.125%) to pay off debt than the debt originally cost [3.8%]). SEC filing here - https://investor.walgreensbootsalliance.com/static-files/bf7a0600-c3a4-4c94-8b55-736871f9a1cc
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Request to Review Your Pharmacy
Each month our Staffing Review Committee meets with Walgreen Co. to review staffing hours. In these meetings, requests to have selected pharmacies reviewed are submitted, as well as other concerns our members bring to our attention.
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