I don't like and support Doug Ford, but in this case, the union is fighting to keep the monopoly.

SHUT IT DOWN

Who cares, there are many options out there people.

Government should not be involved in retail.

I ordered my wine online with free delivery. Picked up my coolers at the Beer Store.

Board them up. I'll go the Amazon delivery option

They’re deleveraging , and the employees have no clue what’s going to happen

Lcbo is also building non unionized warehouses run by an outsourced company

Ontario is years behind, look at Quebec and Alberta it worked there. Union love status quo, not progress

350 lcbo management are on sunshine list.. they only have roughly 700 stores.. the yearly salary budget is 98,000,000.00 $.. defund this waste.

What a weak reasoning. They arent going to lose much of the monopoly. The lie that it's about hours and wage is also weak because the only people I hear that from, aren't good workers. Let's be honest, it's cool to strike and protest right now. The strikers i passed were arrogant monsters. They seemed drunk, they were lowering their flags and blocking people walking by, hitting them with pool noodles and a guy with a whistle that wouldnt stop blowing it for 9 hours straight. Corner stores aren't going to have as large of a selection. And most of their sales are going to be people near the stores with DUIs who dont want to walk as far. Or 24/7 locations that are open past the LCBO hours. Use your BRAINS folks.

Alkohol known to cause cancer and car accidents ..does the LCBO monopoly really want to talk about health care

Yeah a monopoly is not ever good for the consumer...this strike is just making that more evident

Bro this strike gonna be different from other Public Sector strikes. Doug Ford knows he has leverage. He gonna wait it out till the Union caves or runs out of strike funds.😂

LCBO, is not a necessity for life. It's just something you buy for fun!

Sorry folks!! the LCBO (middle man) is a cost we can do without! by removing the labour cost from the LCBO. In the U.S. all booze can be bought at any store ...Meijer and Walmart just to name a couple!! Lets get rid of the overhead.

Well it's a provincial matter so the Premiere will need to decide what to do maybe they will just transition to independent retailers like in BC if employees are making unreasonable demands.

Pete and Phatz Ford are still on vacation for three more months. LCBO workers have six months of vacation a year?????

Kirkland brand alcohol at Costco like in the States would be a nice step.

LCBO workers are such a joke

Like everything else. Out with the old and in with the new. Change can suck but Alberta is private and it’s great with selections and prices. Government monopoly on any product is wrong!

I hope the LCBO stays shut, FOREVER ...Less DRUNKS on the roads , the BEER Stores too.

Union lunacy strikes again.

They're cashiers...

How much should shelf stockers be paid ? What are qualifications ? part time jobs

Too late. The Province has already decided. The monopoly is finished.

They should spend that time looking for another cashier job

So will this take job's away from young people due to alcohol being sold in these places due to under age working in them places

Close the LCBO. Why shou.d taxpayers be forced to pay cashiers, cleaners and shelf stockers $30.00 to $40.00 per hour plus benefits. What an outdated and useless model. Those 9000 workers should start retraining.

Health care id dosrace in BC. No doctors....one walk in clinic in Nanaimo now and other towns around ....one to service how many, you canbline up 6:30 am and hopfully you make list for that day, you will be told tocome back many times through day even if you got a spot!!!!

I’m off the sauce close to two years now…I drink spring water 💦. Converted Waterholic getting hammered daily…

LCBO and the Union can take a hole, IN THIS WEATHER😭..... 😂

Other question...why is Nanaimo sign in BC Park have WEF symbol in it????

I had to get a new doctor fairly recently and just googled "doctors accepting new patients in my area".. the local government had it on their website.. got a new doctor within a matter of weeks. If youre complaining about "using the money elsewhere", at least complain about something that hasn't already been done. 😂 privatizing is good for local/small business, and better for your community. The government needs to get their hands out of everyones pockets.

Well you wouldn’t want to blame the government

I have no problem supporting the union’s wish to have a monopoly on spirit sales because there are plenty of LCBO stores around and the prices are controlled. But the LCBO must have open hours that reflect the store hours of their agency stores and other private retailers. That means open at 9AM and close at 10PM at the very least. If the LCBO and union can’t agree to this, then allowing private retailers the sale of spirits will be inevitable.

when i was a teenager i could find and buy any drug you can name,had a hard time getting booze. think about it.

Fed emp get 15% raises, bonuses...they are only out to break prov employees

I have been drinking allot. The closure of LCBO will be beneficial to my physical health

Public transit should be privatized too. TTC sucks.

They are demanding a lot of perks for being a cashier.. workers at Walmart work harder for less?

They want grocery stores to handle and no union

were not taxing things and we are building things,,,,,,,well now by this man a beer.

Sad

What was offered

this is because its all coming to an end if the lcbo was much more convenient to begin with this wouldn't be an issue. other provinces sell them in the grocery stores and have been. the lcbo has never been that. with drinks available at store the price is gonna be more competitive this is jjust a precursor to whats to come.

This guy needs to retire!!!! He doesnt know how Ontario will sub the shortage in the budget when LCBO can't give 2.5 Billion dollars profits to Ontario!!!. Your taxes will go up!!!

Union company makes a lot of money and not the worker.😂 why not lower the union fee?

what a load of crap from both sides of this interview

Clise the labor. Taxpayers should not have to support an expensive out of date government jobs and high priced booze.

Conveniece stores help create 15 min cities

Stay out who gives a care

Fuck alcohol.. 😂.. this issue maybe important but i m sure ford and his government can focus on other more important things hurting ontarions. F the union- i need my bottle- 😂

Union is a big problem in Canada. We need a new system to resolve labour disputes.

We dont need a government to tell us what we can and cannot do. As a free citizen, I am free to make my own choices on what I do with my body. Almost back to the jab issue again, huh?

How much do the RICH,Elites want 😢this character should work for a living,trying to pay just to live..

Imagine trying to sympathize with people would sell drugs/poison. Who cares about alcohol. They can all kick rocks. Spend that pension/salary money on healthcare instead and increase all alcohol taxes

Im confused, isnt it run by the province? Who is "signing the pay cheques"? If its not run by the province, and it doesnt stop this kind of thing from happening, what is the point of handing over all competition to this socialist monopoly model then??? Also, how badly are they getting underpaid?? Whats the going rate for a grocery store cashier these days?? Is booze about to get more expensive over this? How can they not afford to handle their work force properly...THERE IS NO COMPETITION, and bussiness is always booming! They all want 60K for stocking shelves and scanning bottles, or what?

Why are they aloud to strike they are essential workers ? And why to Fuck is Doug doing commercial with my tax dollars

Now corner stores must hire over 19 age employees, is it

Union busting

Unions have to go!

OPSEU and LCBO want Doug Ford to expand, but include LCBO/opseu in expanding distribution. If LCBO makes 2.5 b per year in profit for the public, imagine what expanding those profits by being the sole supplier to all these new stores with licenses could do in revenue and profit for the public on top of what is being done for the public now. The 2.5b$$. If Doug Ford says NO to expanding LCBO, the LCBO loses that profit yearly and so will the public, plus all the new profits he makes without expanding lcbo no longer go to the public cause the big box stores and convince stores you'd buy from would be owned by his friends privately. So profits all go into their pockets instead.

Alcohol is bad anyways hope LCBO is closed down

Let's face it we are becoming another state 😮

It's simple...upper management for the LCBO and the worker's union will get jobs elsewhere or a beauty golden parachute. In the mean time the LCBO will be shuttered and tax revenue from the sales of alcohol will go from being an income source for the Ontario government to being a profit source for large corporations. It really is just a transfer of control. If it was really about the consumer than alcohol sales would have been offered through all retailers not just the big chains years ago. Just follow the money. To the LCBO workers, you have been duped.

Keep on fighting and don't give up 💪🙂🚬

Right to Work legislation + Universal tariff rates.

Fully support Doug Ford. Let them strike and see who is the winner.

Let’s ask those passengers affected by WestJet strike how they feel about monopoly and oligopoly vs perfectly competitive marketplace

The hospitality industry will have their say soon enough.Then ford will have to fish or cut bait.

*LCBO Warehouse Worker here* 👋 I want to clarify some things Peter lied about, or was intentionally misleading about during this interview. I’d also like to remind everyone this is Doug Ford’s cabinet member and Conservative finance minister of Ontario (he is responsible for Ontario’s tax and benefit policies and his decisions have a direct impact on your cost of living in this province). His salary is a little over $160,000/year. Ok, first of all, we did not choose to “walk away early,” as Mr. Bethlenfalvy states in this interview. During negotiations there is an arbitrator present, this person acts as a neutral middle-party. Once the arbitrator realized the LCBO was not going to meet or even NEGOTIATE on our demands of job security they basically called it a stale-mate at which point we were forced to make the decision to strike. Our only other option was to accept a deal that we believe would accelerate the privatization of the LCBO and demolish one of the ONLY good jobs we have left in our communities to fight for. Second to the above is the claim they offered us “basically” everything we asked for. Think about that statement for a moment. Ask yourself “Does it make sense they would decline an offer that contains everything they asked for? Why would they reach a stalemate if they received an offer like that?” The answer is simple, they didn’t give us an offer like Peter is claiming they did. They offered us a pay increase that doesn’t even meet inflation, the same thing that your company is probably doing to you. We are all struggling to make ends meet, except for Peter Bethlenfavy and Doug Ford & friends. So, to be clear, we did not receive a reasonable offer which we chose to selfishly decline in hopes to achieve an even more lucrative deal. We are standing up to the government because we are the people of Ontario and we ALL deserve to live a good life. Without the revenue generated by LCBO we all foot the $2.5 billion dollar bill together in our increased taxes. Without this we all suffer. Lastly, I want to address the idea that we should “move Ontario to the 21st century and treat Ontarians like adults.” Our union is not against the expansion of product availability, this is something we consider an exciting topic of debate in our negotiations because it breaks new ground and we believe it could create good jobs. What we are against, however, is paying workers low wages with no benefits or pension in order to create more wealth for the top of the food chain. We have suggested to the government that we put an OPSEU member LCBO employee at each retail location for beverage alcohol. To us, that means a number of new members, some of which could be YOU. We want them to pay you a livable wage like I mentioned before, we want them to enrol you in a benefits package and offer you a pension. The government does not want to consider this option because it’s more expensive and complicated for them, despite it meeting both our agendas. When they say treat Ontarians like adults, to me, that means “increase their taxes,” and “be deceptive on television to maintain our holier-than-thou position publicly.” In conclusion, when I got hired for this job they made me put my hand on the bible and swear an oath to the queen of England - “I solemnly swear…blah, blah, blah, Amen." Once sworn in under oath, under normal circumstances I could be persecuted for treason by sharing anything about the employer or slandering the government (i wish I was joking. Most people don’t know this is even a thing). This might be my only chance to speak my mind uninhibited. So, what have we learned? For one, we didn’t walk away early and let me be clear, WE ARE READY AND WILLING TO SIT DOWN & NEGOTIATE MEANINGFULLY. We would return to the table immediately if we believed the LCBO was willing to negotiate our tabled demands with the intent of resolution instead of the intent to deny. Second, we learned that Peter Bethlenfavy was intentionally misleading the public during this interview and the LCBO absolutely did NOT table an offer that was even remotely close to what we had proposed. Lastly, we learned that OPSEU is not fighting against coolers in convenience stores. We are happy to expand but we will not allow the Doug Ford government to cost Ontarians more than they have already. We are your neighbours, we are your friends, we used to be your classmates and some of us still are. This isn’t OPSEU Vs liquor in convenience stores. This is The People of Ontario vs The Ford Government of Ontario.

Everyone will be in long-term care or jail .this government does not want you owning a house or car.

how about changing drinking age to 21

More drunks? Booze available in plenty of “more options “? Keep thinking of wrong options how sad.

Break up this MONOPOLY now!!! Same with the Beer store.

Fully support Doug ford , i will never vote for the liberal, ndp party provincial or federal tax tax tax, i love Canada ❤️ 🇨🇦

Yep Doug, destroy the LCBO and have less money for health care and education.....................Grade 9 Doug!!!!

Doug Ford is my hero.

If you hold the belief that alcohol is controlled substance then government control makes slime sense. Otherwise the government should focus on market policies and let privateers compete in that marketplace