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Topic: Liquor Strike in Ontario?
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robbie_dee
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posted 23 July 2005 01:08 PM
I thought it might be worth starting a thread about the pending strike at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.National Post: Liquor strike could paralyze supplies in Ontario quote: TORONTO (CP) - A strike next week by 5,400 Ontario liquor store workers would choke off the warehouses that provide wine, beer and liquor to retail stores and prevent any government plan to keep stores operating, a union spokesman said Thursday. John Coones said although results of a vote on whether Liquor Control Board of Ontario workers will reject a contract offer won't be announced until Friday, preliminary evidence suggests the strike will go ahead next Thursday as planned. "We're having meetings provincewide and it doesn't matter what area of the province that we check on, the word from the members is that they're voting it down," said Coones, chairman of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union's liquor board employees division. LCBO officials have said there is a contingency plan in place if - for the first time - its employees do indeed strike.
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lagatta
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posted 23 July 2005 01:34 PM
Seems to me the SAQ strike was about three months all in all... It is really tough. The workers lost so much overtime from the "vin nouveau" promotion, the Christmas/New Year's season and Valentine's Day that they are still scrambling to pay the bills. The many part-timers also lost a lot of benefits that required so many hours' worked in the past year... Here Charest was making an example out of them. Hope it won't be the same in Ontario. Any Ontario labour babblers have any idea of the LCBO workers' bargaining strength? Does LCBO also include the beer stores?
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robbie_dee
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posted 27 July 2005 01:31 PM
Toronto Star: Cheers! LCBO Strike Averted quote: There will be no dry mouths among wine and spirits drinkers this long weekend. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario announced at 9 a.m. today that they have reached a tentative agreement with 5,400 employees, averting the possibility of a strike at liquor stores and warehouses.Marathon bargaining for the past two days produced a settlement around 1:30 a.m. at a downtown hotel. Terms of the new collective bargaining agreement were not disclosed pending ratification by members of the Liquor Board Employees Division of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU). The agreement must also be approved by members of the LCBO Board, and by the Ontario government.
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Albireo
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posted 27 July 2005 02:25 PM
thwap, you got a rule against drinking before 2pm Halifax time?[Edited to add:] No strike would have even been possible under Mike Harris! He would have declared the LCBO an essential service! (And, for him, it was). [ 27 July 2005: Message edited by: Albireo ]
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