{"id":1573,"date":"2019-06-14T00:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2019-06-14T00:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T00:22:01","slug":"real-danger-lurking-public-sector-today-private-sector-tomorrow-must-be-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/?p=1573","title":{"rendered":"Real Danger Lurking! Public Sector Today; Private Sector Tomorrow! Must be stopped!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"c-inline-img \"><figcaption class=\"c-article-media__info c-article-media__info--article\">\n<div class=\"c-article-media__description\"><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">The Alberta government has served notice it will bring in legislation to allow the province to override bargained contract agreements and delay wage talks for thousands of public-sector workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Government House Leader Jason Nixon told the legislature the United Conservatives will introduce the bill soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Delaying binding arbitration on wages would affect nurses, conservation officers, peace officers, hospital support staff, administrators and librarians.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Finance Minister Travis Toews has already said all options are on the table as he and his staff work to find savings to eradicate Alberta\u2019s annual multibillion-dollar budget deficits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">The government wants a delay until a panel submits its report in August on the best way to save the province money.<\/p>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"u-wrapper pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-asf-body-top\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Opposition NDP Leader Rachel Notley accused Toews during Question Period today of committing a \u201cgross abuse of power\u201d by using legislation to avoid fulfilling the terms of contracts negotiated in good faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Toews replied that the government respects the work of public-sector staff and believes it is doing what\u2019s in the best interests of the province.<\/p>\n<p>JASON FRANSON \/THE CANADIAN PRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta government has served notice it will bring in legislation to allow the province to override bargained contract agreements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw103.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}