Superstore employees ratify contract, secure wage increases

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Superstore employees have voted in favour of a new collective agreement within Loblaws, averting strike action and securing a five-year deal.

“We could not have achieved this contract without the strong strike vote and support that Superstore members gave to their co-workers on our bargaining committee,” Jeff Traeger, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832, said in a release. “This bargaining committee worked long days and late nights to ensure we had significant improvements for all Superstore workers.”

The union, which represents roughly 3,500 Superstore employees in Manitoba, negotiated the largest wage increases in the last 25 years of its history. It also addressed scheduling complaints to improve hours for part-time workers, the release said.

Superstore workers voted in favour of a strike mandate in September — a move that “changed the tone of ongoing negotiations” and led to an improved deal, the union said.

The union is now preparing to negotiate a new contract for 400 members working at No Frills. The grocery chain is also a subsidiary of Loblaws.