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B.C. Loblaws employees rally on Labour Day to restore COVID-19 pandemic pay
COVID-19 crisis.Members of Unifor want Loblaws to settle a two-week strike in Newfoundland and to restore the pandemic pay to all workers across the country.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Loblaws was one of a number of major grocery chains who ended their temporary pandemic pay bonuses back in June. Unions will still be ‘picketing and demonstrating’ despite no Labour Day parades due to COVID-19 “Today is a day for workers, and what we see is a lot of politicians and corporations put out these nice platitudes about workers, but when push comes to shove, they’re not prepared to treat them fairly,” Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor’s western regional director, told Global News.