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April 12,  2011 LBED’s anti-privatization committee has produced and posted to YouTube an Agency Store video that helps explain the threat these privately-owned and operated retail outlets pose to the our publicly-owned system of spirit and wine sales.  Click here to watch the video

The Liquor Board Employees Division has established a Divisional Emergency Fund (DEF) to provide assistance to members who are experiencing an immediate, severe and temporary situation due to an emergency. Financial assistance is based on need, duration and available funds . more...

March 24, 2011  A fact sheet on the background and current value of the privatization Fight-Back Fund has now been sent out to the sector membership from the President, the Vice President and LBED Chair Denise Davis. more...

LBED continues the process for pay equity compliance

October 1, 2010 LBED Pay Equity Committee moves forward with the employer to ensure the LBCO is pay equity compliant. Although the process has been on going since 2007, the first joint newsletter was sent out to the LCBO employees early September. Download joint newsletter

A Joint Job Evaluation Committee (JJEC) has been established to evaluate and compare job classes. JJEC has identified a representative random sampling of employees from all bargaining unit positions to complete a job information questionnaire (JIQ). Meeting dates have been established for the questionnaire completion.  Download schedule for LBED Pay Equity Questionnaire completion

July 12, 2010  The Ontario Public Service Employees Union applauds the announcement by Finance Minister Dwight Duncan that the planned partial sell off of valuable Crown assets such as the LCBO, Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has been scrapped. more...

June 23, 2010 Public sector activists told the McGuinty cabinet today the province wants no part of a scheme to privatize Ontario’s most valuable - and profitable - Crown corporations  more...

June 22, 2010  Liquor board employees will picket this week’s Liberal cabinet meeting at Glendon College in Toronto to protest the McGuinty government’s threat to privatize the LCBO more...

February 26, 2010 Echo Newsletter for OPSEU members of the LCBO. Issue 31. LBED members host successful Lobby Day at Queen’s Park. News on casual benefits, bullying and bylaw changes  more....

LBED lobbies MPPs to keep LCBO public

February 18, 2010 LBED executive members and anti-privatization committee members descended on Queen Park yesterday with a blunt message for MPPs: Keep the LCBO in public hands more

The Echo Newsletter:

MEMO TO MANAGEMENT: Hands off Albert Salmon!

February 11  2009:  Issue 28  Management and human resource personnel at the LCBO warehouse in Durham seem to have gone into hiding in the wake of a bizarre incident recently that saw the director of operations allegedly attempt to remove an “Obamania” slogan from the back of Local 378 steward Albert Salmon. more... 

For previous issues of the Echo, click here

On Dec. 10 we Stood Up for Part-Time and Temporary Workers....

News coverage from across Ontario: 

LCBO union calls for action on part-time and temporary work

December 10, 2008 The union representing workers at the LCBO is calling for better wages and working conditions for part-time and temporary workers – no matter where they work. more...

Participants wanted for LBED health and safety training

August 21, 2008 OPSEU is sponsoring health and safety training workshops this fall for members of the Liquor Board Employees Division. The union is seeking five participants from each OPSEU local with members at the LCBO. Expenses for the one-day workshops will be paid by OPSEU. Interested in taking the training? Click here to find out how to apply.

How to contact the Employee Assistance Program at the LCBO

May 30, 2008 Reaching Out is a confidential, hassle-free counseling service for eligible LCBO employees and their immediate families. more....

Bargaining 2008

Health & Safety

April 15, 2008: Three sets of 2007 Provincial H&S Minutes posted without employer sign-off--After months of trying to finalize minutes of three 2007 Provincial Health and Safety Committee Meetings, the Provincial Health and Safety Committee finally told the employer that they had until April 15th to propose any edits prior to the minutes simply being released by the union.  The employer states that they "cannot sign off old minutes if their committee has changed."  However, only SOME of their committee has changed, and.....well can't they talk?  more...  

2008 demand-setting survey materials

February 20, 2008 Supporting documents for the 2008 Local Demand-Setting Survey more...

News Releases:

November 13, 2007 Dozens of members of OPSEU’s Liquor Board Employees Division (LBED) staged a noon hour information picket today to protest increasing levels of bullying and harassment inside the massive warehouse depot. more

For previous news releases, click here

Correspondence:

LCBO management continues to harass and intimidate OPSEU members by serving them with a Notice of Intended Discipline (NOID). Make some NOISE! Read our reply  more

For more information on the risks of LCBO privatization and OPSEU’s agency stores campaign click here. 

Health and Safety:

Meeting Minutes
 

Draft Bylaws & Negotiating Procedures:

Become involved by learning more about LBED’s draft bylaws and negotiating procedures which will be put to a delegate vote in June

March 14, 2007 Following membership consultation meetings on LBED’s draft bylaws and negotiating procedures, each Local/Unit is asked to complete a Local Resolutions Reporting Form

Agreements:

August 29, 2006 LCBO finally agrees to recognize all LEC stewards

Forms:

August 9, 2006 Sick Credit Pool Form

Collective Bargaining:

August 10, 2006 Liquor Board Collective Agreement
May 17, 2006 View contract signing photos
August 18, 2005 LCBO agreement receives final ratification
August 12, 2005 Liquor Board Acknowledgements

News Release Archive:

March 29, 2007 - News Release: McGuinty government losing millions through private LCBO agency stores. more...
February 5, 2007 Bungled LCBO recycling plan awarded “Withering Trillium” by OPSEU. To mark today’s launch of the LCBO’s flawed deposit-return program for wine and spirits bottles, OPSEU hands out its “Withering Trillium” award to Premier Dalton McGuinty, Minister of the Environment Laurel Broten, and a pair of senior liquor agency executives
November 23, 2006 OPSEU Day of Action Nov. 24 targets "back-door privatization" of LCBO
September 8, 2006 McGuinty plan for booze bottles would prevent re-use, OPSEU says
September 5, 2006 Time to put a cap on McGuinty’s “teen drinking program,” Casselman says

Benefit news:

May 17, 2006 LBED Casual Benefits Survey Update
August 15, 2005 Benefit Cap Survey - Please complete this survey if you may be affected by the new $2,000 annual cap on paramedical services, which takes effect in September 2005.

Local elections:

May 18, 2006 *Updated* Election results - Local Executive Committee
February 24, 2006 Local election calendar - find out times and locations for election meetings in your local.
February 3, 2006  Elections and Connections Q & A

Your home in OPSEU:

February 3, 2006 Your home in OPSEU - complete with all OPSEU approved board changes.
January 30, 2006 View pictures from the Liquor Divisional Assembly January 23 -24, 2006.

Anti-Privatization Campaign

For information on our anti-privatization campaign, click here

Additional Information:

Liquor Board Employees Division holds barbeque in Thunder Bay, June 30.  See picture from the event.
OPSEU Board welcomes OLBEU members to OPSEU. See pictures from the event.