LifeLabs workers in GTA poised to strike if deal not reached by Saturday [Video]

LifeLabs workers in the Greater Toronto Area could soon walk off the job if a deal isn’t reached with their employer.

OPSEU/SEFPO, which represents members of Local 5119 and Local 298, issued a news release Wednesday on behalf of its couriers and mail room clerks operating out LifeLabs locations across Kitchener and the GTA – including Toronto, Mississauga, Peel, Oshawa, Durham, Halton, York, and Vaughan.

The union said their workers could go on strike as soon as Saturday due to the “lack of dependable futures” at LifeLabs, with picket lines going up Tuesday.

“LifeLabs is a billion-dollar, for-profit company that gets millions of our public health care dollars,” OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick said.

“It can absolutely afford to treat workers fairly – yet even full-time workers are struggling to pay rent as some of the lowest paid employees in the company. … How are you supposed to keep up with …