Unionized workers at Kamloops’ Hudson’s Bay store have gone on strike – Kamloops News

Photo: Josh Dawson Striking workers outside the Hudson’s Bay Company in Kamloops Sunday morning. Unionized workers at the Kamloops Hudson’s Bay Company have gone on strike. In a press release from the United Steelworkers union Local 1-417, the union announced that staff at the Kamloops department store have taken strike action as of Sunday morning, and they’re encouraging the public not to do their holiday shopping at the store until their dispute is resolved. The union says they’ve been working to negotiate a new collective agreement with Hudson’s Bay since July, and they issued a 72-hour strike notice back on Dec. 6. “Not only has Hudson’s Bay refused to pay a reasonable wage increase, it also continues to have concessionary…