Andrew Weaver’s Green Party prepared to stand up to NDP over changes to labour code
VICTORIA — The NDP government’s looming changes to the province’s labour code should stick to recommendations made by an expert review panel, and not restart a fight over the use of secret ballots for employees seeking to form a union, says the Green party.
“What we’re trying to avoid is pendulum swings in labour policy,” said Weaver. “What happens is government changes and the labour code switches wildly from one side to the other.”Weaver has long fought the NDP’s publicly-stated desire to change the current law that requires employees who want to unionize to take a vote by secret ballot, and replace it with a system called card check where a majority of union members must sign cards to certify.
A three-person panel representing employers and unions released a report last year with 26 recommendations on changing the labour code, including removing education from essential service designation that limits strikes, reducing certification votes from 10 to five days, boosting fines, expanding successorship rules to building cleaning, security, bus transportation and healthcare sectors, and restrict employer communications “a statement of fact or opinion reasonable held” that would prevent...
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