According to the union, the average CVS clerk makes less than $20 an hour and can’t afford to buy insurance from CVS, a health insurance company.

The strike involved UFCW Locals 5, 324, 648, 770, 1167, 1428, 1442, and San Diego-based 135, which also represents workers in Imperial County. Together, these locals represent 7,000 workers, with more than 900 in San Diego County.

Workers at seven CVS pharmacies in Southern California have gone on strike to protest what they say is bad-faith contract bargaining by the company, and plan to continue picketing until negotiations resume Wednesday.

The CVS workers’ strike, which affected about 7,000 workers across California, is over, and a tentative agreement between the union and the pharmacy chain has been reached. The agreement, announced by the United Food & Commercial Workers Locals 5,