SAQ strike: CEO confident agreement will be reached [Video]

Quebec City –

On the eve of a two-day strike at the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), the president and CEO of the state-owned company says he is confident of reaching an agreement.

“Negotiations are very active, and real progress is being made at the table, so I’m confident we’ll reach an agreement,” said Jacques Farcy late Tuesday afternoon, in response to questions from Liberal MNA Frédéric Beauchemin, during the parliamentary commission on the study of the SAQ’s appropriations from the Ministry of Finance.

However, he added that discussions are currently focused on standards and not yet on wages.

Farcy assured us that “several objectives are shared” by both management and labour, which is “very good news for making progress in negotiations.”

Nevertheless, he pointed out that “we may have different views on how to achieve these objectives.”

Farcy pointed out that, in the event of a labour dispute, the SAQ’s objective …