Throne Speech: Clarity needed on public sector bargaining direction

October 3, 2011

The Hospital Employees’ Union says that the government is sending mixed messages on its direction for public sector bargaining next year.

HEU’s secretary-business manager Bonnie Pearson says that she’s glad to hear government state in today’s Throne Speech that public servants “need to be treated fairly.”

“Public sector workers – and HEU members in particular – have shouldered the burden of government budget restraint in the past,” says Pearson.

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