No strike for Sudbury Loblaw employees

Shoppers who regularly do their groceries at the city's Your Independent Grocer locations, or at the Real Canadian Superstore location on Lasalle Boulevard, can breathe a sigh of relief.

Workers with the United Food and Commercial union Local 1000a are expected to go on strike July 5.

The union represents 61 Loblaw Companies Limited stores across Ontario – which include some Superstore and Independent Grocer locations.

But the chain's Sudbury stores aren't covered by the union local.
United Food and Commercial union Local 1000a represents around 12,000 employees at Loblaw’s stores across the province.

Most of the affected stores are in the Greater Toronto Area.

Sixty-one per cent of union members rejected a tentative agreement with Loblaw at ratification meetings held June 14 to June 20.

“Following the vote, we informed the company of the membership’s rejection of the tentative agreement and advised we were seeking to return to the negotiating table,” the union said in a press release.

“This morning (June 26), the company advised that they are not prepared to return to the bargaining table.”