Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For May 12, 2025

At last Monday's bargaining session, the employer did not improve their wage offer, which it keeps below inflation.

The employees of the Montreal IKEA set off a surprise strike on Sunday, a week after ending another work stoppage.

After taking off last weekend, the employees of the Montreal IKEA store are back on the picket lines on Sunday.

Strike at IKEA Montreal against “insulting” 0% annual increase

IKEA is insulting its employees. That's the message from IKEA Montreal workers, who were on strike all day yesterday. They didn't expect it to come to this, but IKEA's offer to raise the top wage scale by only 50 cents, while leaving other workers without a raise, crossed the red line. It was the third day of a 10-day bank of strike days adopted on April 23. That day, workers at the store in… Source

Canadian Retail News From Around The Web For May 12, 2025

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MONTREAL — The employees of the Montreal IKEA set off a surprise strike on Sunday, one week after ending another stoppage of work. The measure was taken because the employer would not have improved his offer of wages at the bargaining session last Monday, explains the union president, Elie Zetrenne, in an interview with La Presse Canadienne. The employer would also have been closed to the negotiations, instead asking the government for conciliat…