Quebec SAQ Liquor Store Employees Give Green Light for Limited Strike

Members of a union representing more than 5,000 Société des alcools du Québec employees have voted in favour of a strike that threatens to temporarily close some of the province’s government-owned liquor stores. The labour group made the announcement Mar. 2 morning after a series of general assemblies in which 89 percent of participants approved a limited walkout totalling 15 days. The Syndicat des employés de magasins et de bureaux de la Société des alcools du Québec has not said if it plans to use those days, however, nor whether they would be consecutive. “We wanted to make a statement to the employer that we are serious about our demands,” union vice-president Alexandre Bolduc said in an interview, adding work-life balance and workplace health and safety are among the main points of contention in the dispute....