The British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) has once again taken to the streets, picketing various government offices, as well as the wholesale liquor monopoly and its 190+ B.C. Liquor Stores, inconveniencing the public while paradoxically asking the same public for a raise.

B.C. Liquor Stores have been a prime target of the union for decades, and while many think it could be that closing liquor stores can rile up the people and force the issue like no other government office, could there be a much longer game in play?

Back in 2009, the Times Colonist reported that Premier Christy Clark said government agreed to scrap the privatization of the Liquor Distribution Branch to reach a deal without adding to its deficit or cutting services, while then-union president Darryl Walker sa

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