Tabling on Tuesday of Bill 27, Alberta legislation that will wrest control of public service pensions from the sole hands of the minister of finance and hand it to joint boards run by public service employees and employers, should be the denouement of a long and sometimes dramatic story. “This
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Bill 29 didn’t go far enough: public sector unions #nlpoli
The teachers’ union doesn’t want the public to know the names of public servants in Newfoundland and Labrador.The news late on Thursday is that NAPE – the province’s largest public sector union – and the nurses’ union are thinking about joining t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Repealing Bill 29 #nlpoli
The Liberals proposed a motion during last week’s private member’s day that the government repeal Bill 29. Meanwhile, at the Telegram, legislative reporter James McLeod has been waging a one-man crusade to get everyone to stop trying to repeal Bill 29. Bill 29 actually fixed a few nasty things, according
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