Strike Registration

There is a possible strike in the near future affecting Edmonton, St. Albert, Sherwood Park, and Spruce Grove Superstores and Liquorstores. Please call the Edmonton office IMMEDIATELY at 452-0362 to confirm your picketing status. Please be prepared to advise if you will be picketing, picketing and seeking alternative employment, just pursuing alternative employment, or just "staying away" until the strike is over. Please ask for strike coordinator Larry Zima.

We will be cross referencing our membership records with your calls, so please be prepared to provide your name, address, phone number, and social insurance number. Also, if you will be picketing, please be prepared to provide your picketing shift availability and shift preferences. Please do not hesitate; call us IMMEDIATELY.

To access the registration form, CLICK HERE.

We will contact you to confirm the information you have provided.

04/01/02

Province-wide negotiations for a new Superstore/Liquorstore contract broke for Easter, but both parties expressed a willingness to continue to bargain, for now. "We are still trying to avoid a strike, but we'll be on the street if we have to," said Local 401 Union President Doug O'Halloran, "If it is appropriate, we'll give 72 hours' strike notice…the members are ready to go." Bargaining will continue until "it is time," he said.

04/01/02

Business is down as much as 90% at Saskatchewan Superstores, and picket line participation by Union members is overwhelming.

For example, at Superstore East in Regina, 200 of 225 employees had picketed at least one shift within the first 3 days of the strike. A few employees appear to have quit and a few seem to be staying away. Only 3 scabs have been identified and are now at risk of facing charges under the Union Constitution. Management vehicles sat on an otherwise barren parking lot for the days preceding Easter.

Congratulations and good luck to Saskatchewan Superstore Union members!