Friday, July 27, 2007

Balance and Fairness in Labour Relations, Tory style

I followed UncorrectedProofs link to see that Mike Harris (thankfully not THAT Mike Harris) is running for a seat in the Ontario legislature this fall. Turns out he's running in Kitchener. Since K-W is my home away from home, I was curious if he was running in my home away from home riding. Nope, turns out that's Elizabeth Witmer. The site states that,

In June 1995, she was appointed Minister of Labour. In this capacity, she moved quickly to restore balance to provincial labour relations and to strengthen workplace safety and insurance legislation.


Whew, now I feel better. Good thing that she believes in fairness and balance in provincial labour relations. I guess that accounts for the Tories ending employment equity, repealing of anti-scab legislation, posting de-certification procedures in organized workplaces (realizing that there would be no posting of certification procedures in unorganized ones), repealing Bill 40 and passing Bill 7- without public consultation-which promoted "flexibility" in the workplace, preventing workfare employees from organizing, and preventing farm workers from organizing. Nothing quite like fairness and balance Tory style.

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