LCBO strike enters its 5th day with no end in sight
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The LCBO strike has entered its fifth day, and neither side is willing to budge.
On Tuesday, the province issued a letter to the organization’s head proposing new ideas for the liquor distributor, including a suggestion that the company better “champion” consumers’ demand for local Ontario products.
It was met with skepticism from those on the picket line, and the union itself maintained that its members are already champions of Ontario products.
Greg Scott, an OPSEU member, said the letter is fluff. “It doesn’t offer a guarantee for my future or for LCBO worker’s futures.”
He isn’t the only one echoing that sentiment. Political commenter Keith Leslie has called the ensuing battle between the government and LCBO a “battle of public relations.”
This follows Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to post a video of himself having a good time barbequing “even though LCBO workers are on strike.”
“It’s just showing that this government everyday is going to be countering the side of the people on picket lines with some new booze policy or promotion of booze policy to try and counter the negative impressions of the strike,” he said.
Don't see this going well in a week everyone will see they dont need the LCBO
Beer and wine aren't any cheaper at the grocery store . Shouldn't the competition bring the prices down ? The same people that gouged us during the pandemic are going to give us a better price ?
Ontario needs to accept Margret Thatcher as it's lord and saviour, PRIVATIZE IT.
Worked for that country
Actually should be boarded up. Save the rent , let alone the ridiculous wages
Margaret Thatcher's grave is a literal URINAL. Don't ever bring her up again.
Close the LCBO, dispose of the union.
Lol i thought the lcbo was an essential service 😂
right?!
essentially poison?
Essential for who? Wife beaters?
@@underedenxx it's kind of a joke about the scam that happened in 2020. Remember? Liquor stores were declared essential? And I guess strip clubs while churches were shut down under police surveillance photographing attendees licence plates etc 😂
Shut em down, privatize. Should not be government run.
That’s what they are doing lol
@@jumbome7420finally haha
End the Monopoly and privatize LCBO, we want prices to come down, sell it in stores, so we don`t drive 5 miles to get it, we can walk.
Did beer and wine come down ?
I liked Fords video. And why does that one man say it doesn't guarantee his job. No jobs are guaranteed these days. Find a new vocation.
Fighting b for the right to ensure they don’t have to work that hard because there is no competition
CLOSE THEM DOWN. We want to be able to sell it too. So screw em.
There’s no reason the government to be in the retail liquor business. They can get rid of all the overpaid government employees and let the private sector do the retail. They still collect all the taxes but don’t have all the overhead. Works in Alberta and BC and in a few other provinces as well.
Trust us we are not overpaid😢
@@dinkusmcgee1015 Compared to the private sector with benefits and pensions I doubt that is true. Why go on strike for a job that doesn’t pay well enough to make it worthwhile.
@@Timberland1963lol what do they make at the lcbo ? Bet like all the other cementers you have no idea.
@@Timberland1963what a dumb comment. Why go on strike to ask for money if your not making good money
I dont care why they're on strike. @@jumbome7420
Ford for pm
I agree with Doug Ford on this just like I agreed with Doug Ford on the Hamas protesters blocking bridges, university campuses and threatening school children.
the online store is broken...get rid of lcbo and the beer store.
Doug ford needs to take it page from ronald reagan's book and fire the whole lot of them. And hire a new bunch and go off to the union mafia
lol yea that’s not how it works. Maybe understand before you comment
@@jumbome7420 What am I not getting here? They aren't working. They decided to quit for a while. So why not fire these people teach? These big bad unions a lesson that they can't hold the people of ontario hostage
@@murrayhall3939 lol they didn’t stop working that’s so can’t be fired lol no one is being held hostage. No one
Reagan was a revolutionary. First President to wear diapers in the Oval Office.
lol the union thinks they speak for everyon. they dont speak for me, i want the LCBO abolished.
Dissolve the LCBO stores. Privatize all alcohol sales.
Go Ford. LCBO is just a retail store like walmart. If their employes are working for minimum wage. so does LCBO workers should. I dont support their nonsense strike
great video that Dougie did to inform Ontarians there are other places to support that sell alcohol. The strike may backfire and end the monopoly making lcbo even more over paid and more irrelevant . Support small business like mom and pop places and not padding Galens wallet further for sure.
Privatize. Competition among independent liquor stores is better for price competition. More choices, more selections and more jobs.
High prices, high people, high crime rates. Oh Canada 😢
Yes time to Privatize 🎉
Shut them down.
we have marijuana retail stores on almost every corner why the uproar about alcohol get a life OPSEU
"Handy new map" LMAOOO
Ooh boy🤦 Doug get off my lawn Ford is at it again
Almost like an education gets you more than a minimun wage job in an industry that requires no education.
It's going to be a long road and mortgage problem, big question is why strike
So what make prices higher now? For shelve stockers? Give me a break the only reason why there’s any profits for the LC is cause the people of Ontario not the workers
I drove past a bunch of snowflakes holding signs over the weekend and yesterday, I just gave them a look like I didn't care.
Better hope they don't sit on your car
same
end LCBO. archaic throwback
People who support the LCBO strike are confusing. These are the same people who don't private monopoly because it lacks competition but when it comes to the LCBO its the greatest thing since sliced bread. You can't have it both ways.
They have liquor vending machines with face recognition,get on with it ONtario
This has nothing to do with ford get rid of the lcbo.
lol not Canadain are you
Sad
Got my beer at and liquor at the variety store . Lmao
Not even legal yet tho
lol got my beer at the beer store
@@davidstockman1456if you were Canadian you’d know it is good try
@@jumbome7420 They're foolish to think they deserve job security . Lmao
@@user-cu4pe7hz6i lol more cluelessness
quit being so greedy LCBO in my town your in an inconvenient spot and only open from 10-6...grocery stores are usually open from 8-10, I want to go camping or get something after work, my margins are narrow and no one company should have the monopoly on a product anyway
Those folks picketing may want to cut back on the burgers, or are they are into Nanaimo bars? Good for them to endure that heat
Doug Ford's big-brain-solution is to provide 'interactive maps' and idiotic tone-deaf commercials that only proves what a completely disconnected pillock he actually is...
Love when the fools walk up expecting to pick up thier booze bashing the employes for Doug Fords screw up. I am one that does not to see booze soid in local stores this will open a new can of worms for store employes and not in a good way. Ford needs to rethink this.
Again what's the actual point of this strike I understand that it's about job security but however and this is the big elephant in the room with the amount of people that drink in Ontario it's a 2.5 BILLION dollar industry not a single store should close with a provincial industry that profitable at the end of the day it boils down to three things and the workers themselves don't even realize they're being used as pawns in someone else's game....1) it's about the LCBO themselves the actual company keeping the Monopoly on liquor sales..
2) it is about the higher ups in the company not making as much money if this were to actually get passed which will result in the workers themselves getting fired for one reason alone so the CEO and other higher up can make up the difference in lost profits it has nothing to do with not being able to stay afloat as a company..
And lastly 3) they don't realize this but they're not going to see a single cent of what they're actually fighting for yeah if they win corner stores won't be able to sell liquor but it's not like that money is going into they're pockets it's going into the CEOs, stock holders, an financial backers pockets...
If the workers should be protesting anybody they should be protesting their own company you know get a proper wage things like that but that's not what this strike is actually about.. it's about a company which is government-owned I'll add keeping a monopoly over a industry which I'll add as well monopolizing in Canada isn't technically illigal but from canada.ca's own words "the size of a business even one that dominates a particular market is not necessarily cause for concern however the law prohibits a company from using its market power in a way that hurts competition in the marketplace" which is exactly what the Lcbo is doing using their status as a large company that is government-owned and supported to hurt their competition in the marketplace and ensure there is none