LifeLabs workers in Kitchener prepared to strike if deal isnt reached by Saturday [Video]

Some LifeLabs workers are preparing for a potential strike.

Couriers working out of locations in Kitchener may be impacted by the job action if a deal can’t be reached by Saturday.

In a news release, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) said 25 local couriers could be walking the picket line on Tuesday.

Other couriers and mail room clerks in Toronto, Mississauga, Peel, Oshawa, Durham, Halton, York and Vaughn would also be involved.

The union said the main issue involves a lack of dependable futures.

“LifeLabs is a billion-dollar, for-profit company that gets millions of our public health care dollars,” OPSEU President J.P. Hornick said in the release. “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 the cost of living when your rent hike is higher than your wage increase?”

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