Metro pursues legal action for an injunction against striking employees in order to mitigate food wastage.

Metro Inc. has initiated legal proceedings to obtain an injunction against the striking workers who are picketing at its warehouse and obstructing deliveries.

According to Marie-Claude Bacon, a spokesperson for the company, the presence of picket lines is resulting in the unnecessary wastage of food.

“We owe it to our customers across the province to ensure access to the food they need,”

On Wednesday, employees commenced picketing outside two distribution warehouses. These picket actions occurred during the fourth week of a strike involving 3,700 workers across 27 Metro stores in the GTA.

Bacon cautioned that customers might observe a scarcity of certain items, such as produce, meat, and dairy.

“At some point it’s going to be too late to be distributed in our stores and it’s going to be wasted,” she said.

These instances involve secondary picketing, wherein striking employees picket at locations other than their primary workplace.

“Frontline grocery workers at Metro will continue their brave fight for decent work and pay over the weekend until the employer comes back to the table with a serious wage offer,” Said Unifor National President Lana Payne.

Bacon mentioned that the hearing for the injunction is scheduled for Monday.

However, Larry Savage, a professor in the labor studies department at Brock University, cautioned that there is no assurance of its approval.

Savage indicated that the picketing of the distribution centers might not necessarily breach legality.