Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), which lost nearly $11.5 million in its 2018-19 fiscal year, will give wage hikes to all employees, with the majority of those hikes being up to six per cent.
The hikes come thanks to a mediator yesterday imposing a first collective agreement between MEC and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1518. The agreement, however, included a wage hike for all workers, not just those who are union members, according to the union.
鈥淭his isn鈥檛 the first time that the union鈥檚 advocacy paid off for all MEC staff 鈥� not just those who belong to UFCW 1518,鈥� said UFCW 1518 president Kim Novak. 鈥淏arely two weeks after workers at the 麻豆传媒映画flagship location voted to join our union, MEC announced wage increases to all MEC employees across Canada. That鈥檚 power.鈥�
Workers at the MEC store on West Broadway in 麻豆传媒映画voted to unionize in April while workers at a store in Victoria voted to unionize in November.
No one at MEC immediately responded to Business in Vancouver鈥檚 request for a comment.
MEC generated $462 million in sales across 22 stores in its last fiscal year.
For comparison, MEC had similar sales during 2017-18 at $455 million 鈥� a period in which it was operating fewer stores 鈥� and posted an $11.7 million profit.
that it聽usually takes about a year or two for new stores to sort themselves out and begin performing similarly to others within a chain.
鈥� includes a file from Tyler Orton
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