Labor in the News: "Singular" Safeway Cashier

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)“I’m only still here because of my customers. They become your family” says Nita Robinson (right), a UFCW Local 400 member and shop steward at a Safeway in La Plata, MD. Robinson was the focus of the weekly “First Person Singular” in The Washington Post Magazine’s November 8 edition. “Without my customers, there is no me” says Robinson, sharing stories of her relationship with shoppers at the store. “I like looking out there seeing them standing in my line.” Click here for the full profile. - photo courtesy Washington Post Magazine