Ontario liquor board workers reach deal to dodge strike

Ontario residents won’t need to worry in looking for their alcohol fix this Victoria Day weekend. 

Unionized workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario prevented a strike that could have paralyzed its store operations - a first in its 87-year history. 

In a report by C-B-C News, the workers union reached a tentative deal with their employers on midnight, Friday. 

The issue was about Part-time and temporary work for L-C-B-O employees.

Details were not made public until the bargaining committee presents the deal to worker's union for approval.

Smokey Thomas leads Ontario's Public Service Employees Union, representing over 7-thousand L-C-B-O workers.

Thomas told C-B-C News that both parties made the deal as fair as it can be both workers at the liquor board and for Ontario taxpayers.

The L-C-B-O is Ontario's counterpart to the Société des alcools du Québec, or the S-A-Q.

Flickr Photo by: Mr. T in DC

STORY WRITTEN BY: SATURN DE LOS ANGELES