Toronto warehouse workers at grocery giant Metro trigger strike
The warehouse stocks grocery stores across southern Ontario along the Kingston-to-Windsor corridor, including the GTHA and Niagara region.
“The members have final say on the tentative agreement and have opted to turn down this offer,” Chris MacDonald, Unifor assistant to the national president, said in a statement.More than half of Canadians worry about feeding their family as inflation risesStephanie Bonk, a spokesperson for Metro, said the company “regrets” the decision to strike.She said the deal workers rejected offered an increase of six per cent to average hourly wages in the first year.
“Right now, we’re in the process of setting up our picket lines but we will be reaching out to Metro to determine when negotiations will resume,” MacDonald told Global News.Metro said its stores would remain stocked and that it had implemented its “contingency plan.” “We are disappointed with the employees’ decision to strike but remain ready to go back to the table,” Bonk said.
Unifor represents around 315,000 workers in a range of industries across the country, including some at Global News.
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