"But I believe that we're coming at it from two very different perspectives … so it was necessary to create a situation where the people who their feet on the ground and direct service have a greater say." "I don't feel that it's an us-against-them situation," the program services case worker said of the relationship between the Salvation Army and its employees. Another barrier is employer intimidation, something he says governments don't do enough to stop, even though it's illegal.įor Lyndsay Craine, one of 110 new members from The Salvation Army York Housing and Support Services who unionized with UFCW Locals 175 & 633 in December, unionization seemed within reach after COVID-19 showed the importance of her work. Stanford says some of those hurdles include rules governing unionization campaigns and certification votes. Jim Stanford, director of the Centre for Future Work, says he expects efforts to win rights and protections for gig workers will accelerate for a variety of reasons in the coming years, including due to a tightening of labour market conditions as the economy reopens after COVID-19. Jim Stanford, the director of the Centre for Future Work, a research institute in Canada and Australia, says industries like retail, hospitality and manufacturing are reckoning with the reality that their employees, who traditionally aren't unionized, may be looking to unionize to improve their working conditions. The percentage of workers who belong to unions throughout the country has held steady - before and during the pandemic -hovering at over 30 per cent for about a decade, according to Statistics Canada.īut while public sector workers are highly unionized at 77.2 per cent as of 2021, only 15.3 per cent of their private sector counterparts belong to unions, down from 21.3 per cent in 1997. I think coming back, it sort of woke them up." Why now might be a good time to unionize "We locked down in 2020 and people had the time away from work. "COVID-19 was the straw that broke the camel's back," said Whipple. Whipple is now among 35,000 members represented by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1006A, which deals with workplaces such as grocery stores, retail shops, restaurants and more. Union calls for bonuses, increased safety measures for front-line workersīut instead of leaving, she helped spearhead the unionization effort at her store last summer, following in the footsteps of at least five other Indigo stores in Canada where employees unionized.This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 24, 2020. The Toronto-based book, gift and specialty toy retailer attributed the higher loss to impairment and deferred tax charges, as well as continuing to pay staff wages until the end of March despite store closures.
Indigo reported it lost $171.3 million or $6.22 per diluted share in the fourth quarter compared to a $23.8-million loss or 86 cents per share in the same quarter the previous year. She says the coronavirus, which forced the retailer to close all its retail stores mid-March, is impacting that trajectory. The company, which released its fourth-quarter financial results after markets closed Tuesday, says it had expected its first-quarter to be strong and put it back on track to real profitability. says it expects a "damaging set of conditions" for about a year from the COVID-19 pandemic.Ĭhief executive Heather Reisman says the company expects at least 10 to 12 months of difficulty stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.
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