(TORONTO) Grocery giant Metro announced on Wednesday that its subsidiary Metro Ontario has reached a new tentative agreement with the Unifor union for the renewal of the collective agreement for unionized employees at its 27 Metro establishments in the Greater Toronto Area.
The employer says the agreement will be unanimously recommended by the union’s bargaining committee and will end the strike of thousands of employees, if ratified.
It will be submitted to the employees for a ratification vote which will take place shortly. The union will present the details of the agreement to its members at this time.
On Tuesday, Metro and Unifor returned to the bargaining table a month after the strike began. Hours earlier, an Ontario court granted Metro an interim injunction to restrict employee picketing at the city’s distribution warehouses.
More than 3,700 workers at 27 Metro stores in the Greater Toronto Area went on strike July 29 after rejecting an initial tentative agreement.
