Date: Friday, July 5, 2019
Time: 3 p.m. march; 3:45 p.m. rally
Start location: Westminster Savings Shaughnessy Station branch (2850 Shaughnessy St., Unit 6108, Port Coquitlam, B.C.)
End location: Westminster Savings Sunwood Square branch (3025 Lougheed Highway, Unit 290, Coquitlam, B.C.)
Please note that there may be some potential disruptions to traffic along Lougheed Highway from Shaughnessy St. to Westwood St. due to the size of the march. The union has worked with the local RCMP in order to minimize the impact on motorists.
Westminster Savings informed its members in June that they are planning to shut down the Shaughnessy Station branch this fall, claiming the decision is not related to the branch’s unionized status. The Shaughnessy Station branch is the only unionized branch of Westminster Savings.
Workers at the Shaughnessy Station branch, represented by MoveUP, have been on the picket line since January 22 fighting for retirement security and against their employer’s attempts to deny access to the existing defined benefit pension plan for employees hired on or after July 1, 2018. New employees at the non-unionized branches have already been affected by the change.
