DELTA — Liquor and cannabis warehouses in British Columbia are now behind picket lines as public sector workers step up job action to try to pressure the government back to the bargaining table.

The BC General Employees' Union says workers at the Liquor Distribution Branch's headquarters in Burnaby as well as warehouses in Delta, Richmond and Kamloops are now on strike.

The union has also added five new provincial ministry work sites in Vancouver and Victoria to the strike list, putting the total number of active picket lines across B.C. to 28.

The job action in its fourth week now involves more than 10,000 with actions that also include overtime bans, and the union says escalations this week will continue until the province agrees to negotiate.

The union wants wage increases in line w

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