Alberta’s largest sector union takes provincial government to court over Bill 9 | CBC News
The union says wage arbitration hearings were cancelled after
government lawyers told their representatives that the bill would
receive royal assent on Friday.
government lawyers told their representatives that the bill would
receive royal assent on Friday.
The bill hasn’t received royal assent as of Monday morning.
“We were lied to,” AUPE president Guy Smith said in a written statement.
“Bill
9 is not yet law. We could have gone ahead as scheduled but instead we
lost key arbitration meetings because the government gave us false
information.