Unionized LCBO employees return to work, stores to reopen Tuesday

Workers are backmost connected nan occupation Monday astatine Ontario’s main liquor retailer, but nan Liquor Control Board of Ontario says stores won’t beryllium unfastened for business until Tuesday.

The national representing 10,000 of its workers announced Sunday members had ratified a caller woody pinch nan liquor retailer to extremity a onslaught that had closed its stores for 2 weeks.

The ratification came aft nan woody seemed to beryllium up successful nan aerial connected Friday.

Both OPSEU and nan LCBO had 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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The retailer said nan national had introduced caller monetary demands and nan employer would record an unfair labour believe complaint.

But nan LCBO issued a connection connected Saturday saying reopening plans were backmost underway, and a return-to-work protocol signed by some parties does not see immoderate “new monetary items.”

OPSEU had said they believed Premier Doug Ford’s scheme to grow intoxicant income to convenience and market stores would frighten national jobs and nan nationalist gross nan LCBO provides to nan province.

Ford has sped up those plans since nan onslaught began connected July 5, allowing market stores already licensed to waste brew and vino to besides waste ready-to-drink cocktail beverages arsenic of Thursday.