LCBO stores closed for 2 weeks as workers strike, oppose plan to open up booze market

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Ontario Public Services Employee Union,Grocery Stores,Liquor Control Board Of Ontario

TORONTO — Workers for Ontario's main liquor retailer, who say the government's plan to open up the alcohol market poses an existential threat to their jobs, ...

TORONTO — Workers for Ontario's main liquor retailer, who say the government's plan to open up the alcohol market poses an existential threat to their jobs, are now on strike, with stores expected to stay closed for at least 14 days.

"Welcome to Doug Ford's dry summer," read the video caption, posted to the union's social media page.OPSEU is fearful of job losses after Premier Doug Ford's government announced plans to open up the alcohol market to allow convenience stores and all grocery stores to sell beer, wine and ready-to-drink cocktails.

"We will be operating our business, but it is not business as usual," read an LCBO statement issued early Friday. The proposal would convert about 400 casual workers to permanent full time, improve access to benefits for casual part-timers, expand shift ranges for retail permanent full-timers, and improve severance provisions.Corazon Dandan died after being pushed into an oncoming BART train at San Francisco’s Powell Street Station at around 11 p.m on Monday night.

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