Hundreds get pink slips at Burnaby warehouse
Posted August 10, 2010 3:28 pm.
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BURNABY (NEWS1130) – Hundreds of workers and some managers at a Burnaby warehouse which distributes Safeway products are being let go.
Shawn Lakusta with the Retail Wholesale Union says Safeway says the company that runs the warehouse, Summit Logistics, has effectively been replaced. He says Safeway told Summit last week it is contracting its warehousing to another company and Summit is out of business.
Lakusta says it appears Summit was outbid. “Summit didn’t actually give us a reason (for the layoffs), other than they were told by Safeway they were no longer going to be the third-party warehouse. Our understanding is that there’s been a bidding process going on for the past six months to a year,” he says.
The plant is on 11th Ave. near Griffiths Dr. in South Burnaby. About 360 union members and 30 managers will be out of work by the end of February of next year.
