Unifor members picketing outside Loblaws distribution centre in Ajax
Posted November 3, 2020 4:57 pm.
Last Updated November 3, 2020 5:02 pm.
A strike by grocery workers in Newfoundland is prompting action by their union colleagues in the GTA.
In a show of solidarity, Unifor is setting up secondary pickets at Loblaw distribution centres in Ajax and Moncton, New Brunswick.
Unifor members are picketing at Loblaw distribution centres in Ajax, demanding better wages & full-time employment, standing in solidarity with 1,400 striking workers in Newfoundland. This could affect distribution to Loblaw stores across the GTA. pic.twitter.com/Xwaz5nuU8x
— Tina Yazdani (@TinaYazdani) November 3, 2020
The demonstrations are intended to draw attention to the 14-hundred dominion workers, who have been on strike in Newfoundland since August.
A multi-location news conference was held on Facebook Live today at 2:30 p.m.
Naureen Rizvi, Unifor Ontario Regional Director, spoke from Ajax.
“These front line grocery store workers are fighting a company that makes a billion dollars a year for a living wage. Canadians need to hold our largest, richest corporations to account if they aren’t willing to provide a decent living wage to workers.”
The demonstrators are blocking distributors at the location on Bayly Street East in Ajax. The demonstrators are letting suppliers through.
Yesterday, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Labour Minister appointed a mediator to help end the strike after talks broke off last week.
