Quebec liquor store workers turn wine labels around as pressure tactic
MONTREAL — 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.
There was also a media report of one store in the Saguenay region where all the signs indicating prices had been turned upside down, forcing shoppers to twist their heads in order to see how much the alcohol cost.
Quebec operates about 400 stores through a government-controlled corporation and has a monopoly on all liquor and most wine sales in the province.