Liquor-store workers hide labels, prices in labour spat
Stalled contract negotiations between the Quebec Liquor Corp. and its employees are making workers go topsy-turvy.
Unionized employees at one downtown Montreal outlet obscured the labels Wednesday by turning around all the bottles of wine and liquor on the shelves.
At another store in the Saguenay region, all the signs indicating prices had been turned upside down.
Quebec operates about 400 stores through a government-controlled corporation and has a monopoly on all liquor and most wine sales in the province. Unionized employees unhappy with protracted contract negotiations have voted to give their union executive the power to call up to six strike days.