Target Not A Successor To Zellers

The BC Labour Relations Board has refused to declare Target a successor to Zellers for a location in Burnaby.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1518 was seeking to extend its bargaining rights for the Zellers employees at Brentwood Mall.  That location was one of 220 leasehold interests across the country that Target could acquire from Zellers.

The Board rejected the union application, essentially because the union had not shown a sufficient continuity between the former Zellers business and the projected Target business.  The Board noted:

• Target is different from Zellers in its brand, its market and its methods;
• the Brentwood Mall leasehold interest was important to Target, not because it had been a Zellers, but because of the characteristics of the location itself;