 In 2002, the management of the mall was criticised by CUPE, a labour union, for locking out cleaning staff who were part of the union in favour of non-union staff who received minimum wage and no benefits.The CUPE boycott of the mall ended with a victory for the union.Bill Murnighan, a writer for "Our Times", used the dispute as an example of the "crossroads" that union organising faced in Canada at the beginning of the millennium.