Talks between OPSEU and the province continue but if a deal is not reached by midnight Thursday, all LCBO employees across the province will be on strike and all locations closed for 14 days.
THUNDER BAY — Nearly 200 LCBO employees across the region are preparing to hit the picket lines Friday morning if a deal with the province is not reached by midnight.
The LCBO employs approximately 140 people across five locations and the warehouse in Thunder Bay, with approximately 180 total employees across the Northwest region. “We want to expand with Ontario,” Marsonet said. “We know people want more convenience and we want more convenience, too but we want to be providing the convenience. We want to expand hours, expand locations, which would mean more jobs for LCBO employees.”
“They want to have 8,500 locations open by the end of this year. That is alarming. That is a lot of sales that will be taken from us, as Ontarians, from our health care, our roads, our schools, and into the hands of big business and stakeholders there,” she said. “With privatizing these alcohol sales, it really affects the stores in the region because these are small stores, so they would probably be the first to go,” she said. “That’s a frightening prospect.”
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