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With the terms they just won, these striking workers helped protect provincial tax revenue that helps fund education and healthcare from being stolen by Doug Ford and handed over to grocery CEOs. They also protected good jobs. Mainstream media seem increasingly unwilling and/or unable to mention how unions help everyday people and general affordability issues
https://opseu.org/news/lcbo-workers-vote-to-ratify-new-contract-after-two-week-strike/239446/
Good stuff. I hope the workers got most of what they wanted.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Both the LCBO and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) signed off on a return-to-work protocol Saturday morning, after the tentative deal was put on hold a day earlier.
The LCBO said it was planning to file an unfair labour practice complaint because the union had introduced "significant new monetary demands" after signing the tentative agreement, which it said should have been dealt with at the bargaining table.
At a press conference Friday, OPSEU president JP Hornick disputed that the union had new monetary demands, but said part of their return-to-work proposals included seeking to have striking workers compensated for their time away from work.
OPSEU had said workers were striking becuase they believed Premier Doug Ford's plan to expand alcohol sales to convenience and grocery stores would threaten union jobs and the public revenue the LCBO provides to the province.
"The workers have made it clear to Ontarians that Doug Ford's alcohol-everywhere plan directly threatened jobs and public revenues," said bargaining chair Colleen MacLeod in a statement Saturday.
"Our collective attention must now focus on the work needed to return to regular operations as soon as possible to ensure the critical summer season can bounce back," association president and CEO Andrew Siegwart wrote in an emailed statement.
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Kinda hoped it would spiral into the total destruction of the sector but oh well.