For Indigo workers at Missisauga’s Square One mall, it was “The Bathroom Issue” that started their path to unionization.
“All of a sudden we were given extra duties in the store without any extra PPE,” Jennifer, a worker at the Canadian bookstore chain tells me, explaining what happened when the first wave of workers returned to work in April after the initial COVID-19 shutdown. (The workers who agreed to be interviewed asked that I use only their first name.)