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Final supporters
March 3, 2022
LETTER FROM GOODLIFE GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTORS
Dear Patch, Jane, Jason, Sue, Kim, Alana, Michelle and Hannah
We hope you and your family are staying well and safe during these challenging times.
We are GoodLife fitness instructors from across Turtle Island (“Canada”). We are overjoyed to be able to teach again. We are even more excited to be able to reconnect with our amazing members participants and colleagues.
For so many of us, our GoodLife community has helped us through these very challenging last two years. Many of us have been coping with family health issues, job loss, isolation, mental health struggles and economic stress. Like so many people we have found ourselves in new roles as fulltime caregivers for ailing parents, helping our children with online learning and navigating unexpected life-changing challenges related to the pandemic.
Despite these immensely challenging times we have all found ourselves excitedly awaiting our return to teaching classes at GoodLife. It has been a lifeline for many of us as well as our wonderful members. As we awaited our return to teaching, we have been doing BodyAttack in our basements, ordering BodyPump Smart Bars, playing our favorite BodyCombat tracks, improving our technique and counting down the days until the restrictions would lift. Many instructors also stayed connected with members and participants throughout the pandemic and have been keeping them updated about club openings, classes and the exciting news of capacity increases.
We appreciate what a challenge it has been scheduling classes and bringing back employees. We also all hoped to have an opportunity to be recalled. We are heartbroken to hear that many of our fellow instructors who are passionate about teaching, and beloved by participants and colleagues alike, have been abruptly terminated. We know GoodLife is a company that cares deeply about physical and mental health and appreciates that many instructors were enduring monumental hardships and challenges during the past two years.
We are deeply hopeful that you will reconsider these terminations.
We believe in GoodLife’s core values: Caring Trust, Integrity, Passion, Peak Attitude, Happiness and Personal Fitness. And we believe that we are all in this together.
Sincerely,
GoodLife Group Fitness Instructors
David Patchell-Evans, Founder and CEO, GoodLife
Jane Riddell, President, GoodLife
Jason Sheridan, Chief Operating Officer, GoodLife
Sue Chambers, Senior Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Kim Lavender, Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Alana Free, Vice President, People and Culture, GoodLife
Michelle Tierney, Senior Director, Associate/Labour Relations, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion, GoodLife
Hannah Keyes, Labour Relations Manager, GoodLIfe
Jason Sheridan, Chief Operating Officer, GoodLife
Sue Chambers, Senior Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Kim Lavender, Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Alana Free, Vice President, People and Culture, GoodLife
Michelle Tierney, Senior Director, Associate/Labour Relations, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion GoodLife
Hannah Keyes, Labour Relations Manager, GoodLife
cc: Dan McDonogh, Director, Programming and Performance
Katherine Foster Grajewski, Group Experience Divisional Manager
Michelle Ryder, Group Experience Divisional Manager
Abigail Johnson, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager and Team Training/Performance Specialist
Tracy Blakely, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Terri Dermo, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Mandy Dolley, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Kathleen McDougall, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Carole Reber, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Rachel Stickwood, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Brad Hawkins, Senior Director Operations, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Mike Douven, Operations Division Manager and Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Cindy Chan, Associate Relations Specialist
Aliya Siddiqui, Associate Relations Manager
Danielle Benoit, Associate Relations Advisor
Julie Hale, Associate Relations Advisor
Kristopher Usher, Associate Relations Advisor
Ijeoma Osiegbu, Associate Relations Advisor
Alison Campbell, Associate Relations Advisor
Dwayne Smith, Manager, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Laura Haggart, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Coordinator
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I am honestly a bit overwhelmed by the momentum this has gained. It is truly humbling to see so many of you connecting with this message and deciding to stand behind our instructors.
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We’ve supported and stood by GoodLife by writing letters to our local MP’s during the pandemic in solidarity to keep clubs across Canada open safely with our support. Please don’t forget all the great things and sacrifices our instructors have done for this company and for its members
I am grateful to be a recalled instructor but surprised by the manner by which my fellow instructors have been terminated. Most of them found out via a short email. Some of these instructors have been teaching for over a decade and it seemed inconsiderate to not at least pick up the phone and call them.
I am a former instructor. Fitness is my passion but not my career so I stepped away to focus on my professional life. I totally sympathize with the financial challenges that GoodLife has faced, like so many businesses. Instructors are only paid when they teach. While it is true that there are less classes on the schedule, I have to wonder why GL would not give 1-2 classes a week to a larger group of experienced instructors. I see some instructors have classes every day. What is going to happen if GL can expand the number of classes? Would you not want to have experienced instructors delivering classes if possible? I suggest there is a limit on the number of classes that one person can deliver. Important to note that some instructors have full-time jobs outside GoodLife. Are you wanting instructors to be more or less full time teaching?
Not fair how these long time instructors have been treated. As a former instructor I am appalled!
It is the group exercise instructors that sets Goodlife apart from the others gyms and the only reason why I keep my membership!
Very sad. I had full intentions of returning.
Thank you Alisa. I trust that Goodlife will see that we are sad and disappointed that we will no longer be part of this group
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March 3, 2022
LETTER FROM GOODLIFE GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTORS
Dear Patch, Jane, Jason, Sue, Kim, Alana, Michelle and Hannah
We hope you and your family are staying well and safe during these challenging times.
We are GoodLife fitness instructors from across Turtle Island (“Canada”). We are overjoyed to be able to teach again. We are even more excited to be able to reconnect with our amazing members participants and colleagues.
For so many of us, our GoodLife community has helped us through these very challenging last two years. Many of us have been coping with family health issues, job loss, isolation, mental health struggles and economic stress. Like so many people we have found ourselves in new roles as fulltime caregivers for ailing parents, helping our children with online learning and navigating unexpected life-changing challenges related to the pandemic.
Despite these immensely challenging times we have all found ourselves excitedly awaiting our return to teaching classes at GoodLife. It has been a lifeline for many of us as well as our wonderful members. As we awaited our return to teaching, we have been doing BodyAttack in our basements, ordering BodyPump Smart Bars, playing our favorite BodyCombat tracks, improving our technique and counting down the days until the restrictions would lift. Many instructors also stayed connected with members and participants throughout the pandemic and have been keeping them updated about club openings, classes and the exciting news of capacity increases.
We appreciate what a challenge it has been scheduling classes and bringing back employees. We also all hoped to have an opportunity to be recalled. We are heartbroken to hear that many of our fellow instructors who are passionate about teaching, and beloved by participants and colleagues alike, have been abruptly terminated. We know GoodLife is a company that cares deeply about physical and mental health and appreciates that many instructors were enduring monumental hardships and challenges during the past two years.
We are deeply hopeful that you will reconsider these terminations.
We believe in GoodLife’s core values: Caring Trust, Integrity, Passion, Peak Attitude, Happiness and Personal Fitness. And we believe that we are all in this together.
Sincerely,
GoodLife Group Fitness Instructors
David Patchell-Evans, Founder and CEO, GoodLife
Jane Riddell, President, GoodLife
Jason Sheridan, Chief Operating Officer, GoodLife
Sue Chambers, Senior Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Kim Lavender, Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Alana Free, Vice President, People and Culture, GoodLife
Michelle Tierney, Senior Director, Associate/Labour Relations, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion, GoodLife
Hannah Keyes, Labour Relations Manager, GoodLIfe
Jason Sheridan, Chief Operating Officer, GoodLife
Sue Chambers, Senior Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Kim Lavender, Vice President, Group Experience, GoodLife
Alana Free, Vice President, People and Culture, GoodLife
Michelle Tierney, Senior Director, Associate/Labour Relations, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity and Inclusion GoodLife
Hannah Keyes, Labour Relations Manager, GoodLife
cc: Dan McDonogh, Director, Programming and Performance
Katherine Foster Grajewski, Group Experience Divisional Manager
Michelle Ryder, Group Experience Divisional Manager
Abigail Johnson, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager and Team Training/Performance Specialist
Tracy Blakely, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Terri Dermo, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Mandy Dolley, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Kathleen McDougall, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Carole Reber, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Rachel Stickwood, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Brad Hawkins, Senior Director Operations, Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Mike Douven, Operations Division Manager and Group Fitness Program Divisional Manager
Cindy Chan, Associate Relations Specialist
Aliya Siddiqui, Associate Relations Manager
Danielle Benoit, Associate Relations Advisor
Julie Hale, Associate Relations Advisor
Kristopher Usher, Associate Relations Advisor
Ijeoma Osiegbu, Associate Relations Advisor
Alison Campbell, Associate Relations Advisor
Dwayne Smith, Manager, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Laura Haggart, Corporate Responsibility, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Coordinator
Updates
March 4, 2022
I am honestly a bit overwhelmed by the momentum this has gained. It is truly humbling to see so many of you connecting with this message and deciding to stand behind our instructors.
9 Comments
I am one of the Group Fitness Instructors whose job was terminated. We are heartbroken at not only the loss of a job that was beloved to us, but also by the lack of respect GoodLife showed in the decision-making process. There are instructors who I helped to train that have been kept on, while I have been let go. There was no consideration for seniority or for who is best fit for the job (ie: no performance appraisals). I am extremely disappointed in GoodLife.
We’ve supported and stood by GoodLife by writing letters to our local MP’s during the pandemic in solidarity to keep clubs across Canada open safely with our support. Please don’t forget all the great things and sacrifices our instructors have done for this company and for its members
I am grateful to be a recalled instructor but surprised by the manner by which my fellow instructors have been terminated. Most of them found out via a short email. Some of these instructors have been teaching for over a decade and it seemed inconsiderate to not at least pick up the phone and call them.
I am a former instructor. Fitness is my passion but not my career so I stepped away to focus on my professional life. I totally sympathize with the financial challenges that GoodLife has faced, like so many businesses. Instructors are only paid when they teach. While it is true that there are less classes on the schedule, I have to wonder why GL would not give 1-2 classes a week to a larger group of experienced instructors. I see some instructors have classes every day. What is going to happen if GL can expand the number of classes? Would you not want to have experienced instructors delivering classes if possible? I suggest there is a limit on the number of classes that one person can deliver. Important to note that some instructors have full-time jobs outside GoodLife. Are you wanting instructors to be more or less full time teaching?
Not fair how these long time instructors have been treated. As a former instructor I am appalled!
It is the group exercise instructors that sets Goodlife apart from the others gyms and the only reason why I keep my membership!
Very sad. I had full intentions of returning.
Thank you Alisa. I trust that Goodlife will see that we are sad and disappointed that we will no longer be part of this group
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I am one of the Group Fitness Instructors whose job was terminated. We are heartbroken at not only the loss of a job that was beloved to us, but also by the lack of respect GoodLife showed in the decision-making process. There are instructors who I helped to train that have been kept on, while I have been let go. There was no consideration for seniority or for who is best fit for the job (ie: no performance appraisals). I am extremely disappointed in GoodLife.