LCBO deal ratified, stores will reopen Tuesday after strike

The LCBO says stores will reopen Tuesday aft nan national representing 10,000 of its workers ratified a caller woody pinch nan liquor retailer connected Sunday to extremity nan onslaught that had closed its stores for 2 weeks.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario confirmed nan ratification successful a news merchandise Sunday, saying nan onslaught will officially extremity astatine 12:01 a.m. connected Monday and stores will beryllium fresh to service customers nan adjacent day.

LCBO workers represented by nan Ontario Public Service Employees Union voted successful favour of nan three-year corporate agreement, OPSEU said successful a property merchandise Sunday.

“We went connected onslaught to protect bully jobs and nationalist revenues, and to triumph much imperishable jobs pinch benefits and guaranteed hours,” said Colleen MacLeod, chair of nan OPSEU bargaining team, successful nan property release. “Our members stood strong. They held beardown lines, they talked to their communities — and they won.”

The LCBO published specifications of nan statement connected Friday, which includes an 8 per cent costs summation complete 3 years, nan conversion of astir 1,000 casual labor to imperishable part-time positions and nary shop closures complete nan people of nan agreement.

The ratification comes aft nan woody was up successful nan aerial connected Friday, aft some OPSEU and nan LCBO announced a tentative statement had been reached but nan national said nan onslaught would proceed aft nan employer refused to motion a return-to-work protocol.

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Both sides accused each different of bargaining successful bad faith, pinch nan employer saying it would record an unfair labour believe complaint.

The LCBO, however, issued a connection connected Saturday saying some sides had signed disconnected connected nan protocol and reopening plans were backmost underway.

“As we invited backmost our weighted employees, we are focused connected returning to our normal operations successful support of our unit and wholesale customers and of Ontario’s beverage intoxicant industry,” nan LCBO said successful a connection Sunday.

OPSEU has said nan strike, which began connected July 5 and was nan first of its benignant successful nan LCBO’s history, was astir protecting national jobs and provincial nationalist gross amid Premier Doug Ford’s scheme to let convenience and market stores to waste ready-to-drink cocktails.