(Toronto) More than 900 full-time workers at Metro’s Toronto-area distribution center are on strike after voting to reject a tentative deal with the supermarket chain, Unifor said Monday.
Posted yesterday at 2:33 p.m.
According to the union, the workers, who have been without a contract since October, voted on Saturday to reject the proposed deal.
Chris MacDonald, assistant to the national president of Unifor, recalled that the members had the final say on whether or not to accept a tentative agreement, and that they had chosen to refuse the offer.
According to him, the bargaining committee is ready to resume negotiations in the hope of quickly ending the strike.
The Etobicoke distribution center supplies Metro and Food Basics grocery stores in southern Ontario.
Meanwhile, 190 workers at a Sobeys distribution center in Terrebonne have been on strike since February after negotiations between the company and the union broke down.
In January, workers at a Sobeys warehouse in Ontario ratified a four-year contract that included a 19.5 per cent full-time wage increase over four years, Unifor said.