SQDC permanently closing store on Saint-Hubert
The Société Québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) will permanently close one of its branches, laying off 11 workers in the process.
It’s a first for the state-owned company, which had never closed a store before.
The affected branch at Plaza Saint-Hubert in Montreal.
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The branch will close its doors to customers on March 2. The end of employment for workers is March 23 – the added time is to complete tasks linked with closing a branch,
Fabrice Giguère, a spokesperson for the SQDC, called it a “business decision,” even if overall “things are going well” at the SQDC.
But the president of the union, David Clément, sees this as a measure of retaliation because of the one-and-a-half-year strike that took place in several unionized branches.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews