Over 1,400 workers at the eleven Loblaws-owned Dominion grocery stores in Newfoundland have been on strike since August 22. The workers are striking for fair wages, paid sick days, and full-time jobs.

Over the years, Loblaws has turned many full-time, stable jobs at Dominion stores into low-paying part-time jobs with little to no benefits. In 2019 alone, sixty full-time positions were removed. Over 80 percent of the workers at Dominion are currently in part-time, precarious positions and barely make over minimum wage.

In April, Loblaws instituted a $2-per-hour pay increase for all its workers as pandemic pay. In June, the pandemic pay was cut, despite the fact that the pandemic is still with us. This decision outraged Dominion workers. As Robert Peddle, a forty-year employee at Dominion, said, “I think it’s shameful what they’ve done to people who have given their working lives to make them profit.”