WINNIPEG, Manitoba (FNS) -- Management of 18 Westfair-owned superstores and Extra Foods supermarkets here has reached an agreement with more than 2,000 workers for a new contract.The deal averts a feared repeat of a...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- More than 2,100 cashiers, shelf-stockers, butchers and bakers in 18 Westfair Foods-owned Superstores and Extra Foods outlets across Manitoba have voted to strike Nov. 10, one day after their...
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Canada Safeway's attempt to prevent teenagers from buying cigarettes backfired at most of its 27 supermarkets here.Last month, Safeway's Canadian headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, ordered its 200...
CALGARY, Alberta (FNS) -- The bitter 75-day strike that idled more than 10,000 workers at 74 Canada Safeway supermarkets in Alberta is over, but at enormous cost to both Safeway and the United Food and Commercial...
CALGARY, Alberta (FNS) -- Canada Safeway and the union representing 10,000 of its workers have both asked a government mediator to resume negotiations, which stalled May 19, after 11 fruitless days.As of last week...
CALGARY, Alberta (FNS) -- Union leaders are threatening "substantial fines" for hundreds of disgruntled strikers who have left their picket lines and gone back to work at Canada Safeway.Doug O'Halloran, president of...
CALGARY, Alberta (FNS) -- Canada Safeway's 11,000 workers in 73 Alberta stores struck the chain last week, leading the retailer to begin hiring replacement workers.Chain employees walked out at midnight on Tuesday...
CALGARY, Alberta (FNS) -- Bracing for an expected strike of some 11,000 unionized employees in its 83 Alberta supermarkets, Canada Safeway is recruiting as many as 10,000 replacement workers with half-page ads in...
EDMONTON, Alberta (FNS) -- New regulations passed this month by the Alberta provincial government prohibit supermarket chains from selling liquor, even if they put up a wall in their stores to separate the businesses...
WILLIAMS LAKE, British Columbia (FNS) -- In its 120-store invasion of Canada, Wal-Mart is sidestepping union labor much the way it has in the United States. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant earlier this year...
