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May 10, 2013 On behalf of its liquor board employees OPSEU is taking the LCBO and the Wynne government to the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal over wage discrimination at the Crown-owned retail giant more...

March 29, 2013 LBED members will take a strike vote on April 8-9. Find your nearest voting location  more...

January 3, 2013 OPSEU has endorsed the LCBO’s plan announced this week to expand retail services to large grocery stores and specialty wine shops more...

LCBO workers highlight Equal Pay for Equal Work on Human Rights Day

December 11, 2012 Across Ontario LBED members commemorated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10.  more...

December 6 2012 An important message from President Warren (Smokey) Thomas about Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's attempt to redefine Ontario with his recent attack on the LCBO and proposal to privatize it.  more...

On December 10, stop by your local LCBO store

December 5, 2012 Join us at one of the 18 LCBO stores throughout Ontario as we highlight the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed on December 10, 1948. Article 23.2 states, “Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work” more...

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December 4, 20122 A plan announced today by Conservative Leader Tim Hudak to privatize the LCBO could kill 10,000 jobs across Ontario more...

September 12, 2012 LBED's divisional executive is looking for four candidates to serve, for a period of one month, on the joint job evaluation committee  more…

June 27, 2012 An all-party legislative committee has been told the provincial treasury is losing millions to the LCBO's agency store program   more...

June 22, 2012 OPSEU’s Liquor Board Employees Division elected its bargaining team at a recent pre-bargaining conference in Toronto. The seven-member team, representing more than 6,500 workers, will negotiate a new collective agreement with the LCBO when the current contract expires on Mar. 31, 2013.. more...

April 27, 2012 Registration forms for the 2012 LBED Pre-Bargaining Conference on Saturday, June 2 are now available. Deadline for return of the forms is May 15.   more…

April 5,  2012  The LBED Demand-Setting Survey plus a Manual guide to everything your Local needs to know about distributing, collecting, and analyzing the LBED Survey is now online.   more…

February 21, 2012  All Liquor Board Employees; Bob Peter, President and CEO of the LCBO, sent an announcement to our members on February 13, 2012 stating that Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance, was directing the LCBO to sell its head office property, including the Toronto warehouse and Queens Quay liquor store (Store 217). more...

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...