Unifor members and Hudson's Bay retirees rallied outside the Windsor store Tuesday afternoon to show support to the workers who are about to lose their jobs.
The company is set to close stores on June 1, laying off over 8,000 workers across the country.
"We had a family here, this was a family. We enjoyed our jobs. We worked hard together, we partied together, we saw babies born, people die. We were happy here," said Debbie Macdonell, a retiree who worked for Hudson Bay for 38 years.
Unifor Local 40 President Jodi Nesbitt said they're concerned about the current workers who are being abandoned in the liquidation process.
"These members that have worked for some of them over 35 years are not getting severance because they are not considered primary creditors. People that have worked here for 35 years, that would be getting a substantial amount of severance have lost that," said Nesbitt.
The union is lobbying the government to protect workers by reforming the federal insolvency law. It would like to see an increase on the cap on the Wage Earner Protection Program and the establishment of a trust-held or federally guaranteed fund to ensure workers are made whole.