Tomorrow is the strike deadline for the LCBO.
They have never had a strike before.
The issue is that the LCBO makes $2.5 billion in profit for Ontario and DoFo would rather see that money go to his donors.
He wants to screw over the people, the workers and the provinces finances for his backers.
Whenever I drop by the LCBO I tease the workers by asking them whether they have received the paper bag for my bottle of scotch that the Premier had promised us. They roll up their eyes but smile politely and say "No Sir, we have yet to receive them." I sense that the mood is grim and reluctantly they might opt for strike action. But all the right wing chatter of privatization, competition and lower prices is poppycock as the price tag on a bottle is almost all taxes which ain't disappearing anytime soon.
You know that for decades in the university sector we used to sit around in the faculty club puffing smugly on our meerschaums and thinking haughtily in our self-delusion that unions were for the trades people. 'Till one day we woke up and realised that was stupid, supercilious and self-destructive. Now, I don't know of any campus where the faculty is not a certified bargaining unit.
So let the right wing capitalist ideologues rant and rave about socialism, communism and goddamned unions.
It was salutory for a change to see a US President visit a picket line. Pity he did not run decades ago.