NDP focuses rhetoric on reversal of Tories’ wage-freeze bill
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NDP labour critic Tom Lindsey used Labour Day to renew calls for the reversal of a bill that would freeze public-sector wages for two years.
The government’s “anti-labour legislation” is at odds with the holiday, Lindsay said in a release, and that “everyone deserves a fair wage for each and every hour they work.”
In March, the Pallister government announced plans to impose a two-year wage freeze on 120,000 public-sector workers followed by caps on salary increases for the subsequent two years: 0.75 per cent in year three and one per cent in year four.
At the time, Finance Minister Cameron Friesen told reporters “it’s a good place to begin.”
But in July, the Manitoba Federation of Labour sued the government over Bill 28, the Public Services Sustainability Act, arguing that it is unconstitutional and an impediment to workers’ rights to free collective bargaining. While its unclear when that lawsuit will go before the courts, the suit also seeks an injunction in order to prevent the bill from being proclaimed into law.
The government called the suit an unfortunate distraction from most of Manitobans’ real priorities.
In Lindsey’s Labour Day release, he reiterated the NDP’s commitment to pushing back against the bill and others that the party thinks might infringe on workers’ rights.
