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LCBO union threatens “dry Ontario summer” amid strike talks
The LCBO may be closed as of July 5 if the liquor distributors’ unionized employees go ahead with their proposed strike.
LCBO union members voted 97% in favour of a strike if a deal isn’t reached with the Crown corporation by next Friday.
“We chose this date because we did not want to impact the first long weekend of the summer,” said Colleen MacLeod, chair of Ontario Public Service Employees Union during a news conference this week.
“Let’s make this clear, LCBO employees, LCBO workers, also do not want a dry Ontario for the summer.”
The roughly 9,000 LCBO employees being represented by the OPSEU have been negotiating with LCBO management about the need for more full-time positions and fears around Ontario’s changing alcohol retail laws.
LCBO staff are worried that the decision by Premier Doug Ford to allow the sale of alcohol in convenience stores will hurt their work hours.
