Media Advisory - LCBO workers in Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie to mark UN human rights day Dec. 10 with information pickets

SUDBURY, ON, Dec. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - LCBO employees in Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie will mark the 64^th anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights by staging information pickets in the three cities calling on the Crown corporation to provide equal pay for equal work.

Article 23.2 of the UN declaration states: "Everyone, without discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work."

The LCBO, however, uses a multi-tiered wage structure that discriminates against many of its employees who do the exact same work as their colleagues but who are classified differently.

LCBO workers are represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Their contract with the LCBO expires on Mar. 31, 2013 and the union has pledged to make equal pay for equal work a priority at the bargaining table.

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LCBO workers to demonstrate equal pay for equal work at rallies Dec. 10

Date:			Monday Dec. 10
Time:			Noon - 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. - 6 pm
Locations:			Sudbury, 190 Cedar St. North Bay, 1711 Algonquin Rd. Sault Ste. Marie, 616 Great Northern Rd.

 

SOURCE: Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)

Kevin Herbert
416-995-3820