Threat of strike at the SAQ

(Montreal) A strike threat hangs over the Société des alcools du Québec.

Some 800 union members work in SAQ warehouses and supply SAQ points of sale who would be affected by a walkout, if any.

These workers, members of a local union of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, have just voted 94% in favor of pressure tactics that could go as far as a strike.

These are not the employees of the SAQ branches, who are members of another union, but those who supply these points of sale.

The collective agreement expired on 1^er last April.