Quebec’s government-owned cannabis retail monopoly says some of its locations where workers are on strike will be occasionally closed this summer because of the labor action, one for an “indefinite time.”
“More closures may be announced over the summer,” the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) said in a Monday update on the strike by employees represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
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The strike began in May with the union “demanding decent working conditions,” including salaries and benefits in line with other province-owned businesses.
Sixteen out of 22 stores currently affected by the strike will be closed for one or two weeks this summer, according to the SQDC’s latest update, with 67 unaffected by the closures or the strike.
The location that has been closed “for an indefinite time” was shuttered to support a nearby store with more traffic, according to SQDC spokesperson Fabrice Giguere.
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