Windsor Rallies With Zellers Workers on May 5 to Ask Target for Fairness

WINDSOR, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 4, 2012) -

Attn: News and Assignment Editors for Saturday, May 5, 2012 - Windsor, Ontario

Community supporters, family members and long time Zellers workers and customers will be heading to the city's largest shopping centre this May 5 weekend to Ask Target for Fairness. The rally is scheduled for 11 a.m., at Devonshire Mall.

The Zellers store at Devonshire Mall is one of the 24 locations where U.S. retail giant Target will open its first Canadian stores in the spring of 2013. Like at all Zellers stores across the country facing conversion, workers at the Devonshire Mall Zellers location have been told they can reapply to work at Target, but there is no guarantee they will be rehired. Even if they are rehired, they will have no seniority and will have to start at the bottom rate.

"Many of the Windsor Zellers employees have worked decades at their store but that counts for nothing in Target's plans for Canada," says UFCW Canada national representative Kevin Shimmin. "The rally is a chance for the community to tell Target that folks in Windsor and across Canada expect Target to treat their neighbours fairly."

Windsorites - like tens of thousands of people across the country - are already very familiar with the issue because of a national campaign featuring Zellers workers on billboards, bus shelters and at www.targetfairness.ca. The Zellers workers' campaign asks Target to do the right thing and keep Zellers workers at their current rate of pay and seniority.

Zellers union members will be participating in the Windsor rally, along with family members and neighbours. They will be joined by UFCW Canada activists, as well as labour allies affiliated with Windsor Labour Council.

Community members and supporters are encouraged to join the family-friendly event at Devonshire Mall at 11 a.m.

WHAT:

Windsor rally with Zellers workers to Ask Target for Fairness

WHEN:

Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 11 a.m.

WHERE:

Devonshire Mall

3100 Howard Avenue

Windsor, Ontario N8X 3Y8