Karissa Lewis, 27, who is Black, worked at Artizia’s Yorkdale location in the Toronto area for five months.
Lewis said she raised her concerns with the manager that had been training her: “She was kind of giving me the run around and saying, ‘Oh this is normal.' ” Lewis said. Aritzia’s post read in part: “We’re using our platform as a call to action – to speak up, to listen, to live our neighbours, to learn from our neighbours, to think critically, to come together and do what’s right.”
In response to Lewis’ concerns over her cashier shifts, lack of manager shifts, and that she was asked to vacuum the store, an Aritzia spokesperson added: June Francis, a professor at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business, told CTV News people who have a had similar experiences as Lewis have been individually raising these types of complaints to companies and organizations for years, often without adequate responses, and that the anti-racism movement has finally created an opportunity.
Everyone complaining in the replies are proving our point for protesting! Y’all will never experience racism in your lives so it is not your place to complain about how black people fight for their rights. I’m not black, but am proud to be an ally. Stop trying to be oppressed.
This looks like the daily race card pulled by CTV. So much for balanced journalism in Canada. CTV and CBC have become narrative driven like CNN and MSNBC.
OMG they made a retail manager help with clean up and do cash til shifts. That's not racism that's retail management. When I did retail management I had to help in every job, cleaning, stocking, customer service, take cash, do returns. What she's talking about isn't racism.
They didn’t promote her fast enough and she’s black. Pretty nice racists who gave her a good job and a good salary... But still! It couldn’t possibly have been anything else but racism! White people have never been passed up for a promotion!
Omg, a “former” manager 🤣🤣🤣. Next on who gives a shit...
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