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Subject: RE: YO Mr Jones do ya think Higgy or Stevey Boy Murphy or
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Subject: Fwd: YO Mr Jones do ya think Higgy or Stevey Boy Murphy or
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Steve Drost Elected President of CUPE NB
This Saturday April 24 2021, Steve Drost has been elected for a 2-year term as provincial president of the New Brunswick Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE NB). More than 200 delegates, representing CUPE locals from across the province, elected Drost to lead New Brunswick’s largest union. The vote was conducted Saturday afternoon at CUPE NB’s 58th annual convention, which took place virtually, Friday and Saturday.
“I will do my best each and every day for all our members, to make sure we are truly listening and making CUPE NB a grassroots, member driven Division. I am honoured to be your president,” said Drost to delegates. Drost, who has been vice-president of CUPE NB for the last two years, takes the place of President Brien Watson.
“I have been working for over 44 years in the education sector, so I am looking forward for retirement,” said Brien Watson. “I wish Steve all the best in his new role,” said Watson.
“It’s an honour to follow in the foots steps of Brother Watson, who diligently served his 2-year term as Division President. He picked up the “Bargaining Forward” campaign, and took head-on the enormous curveball that is COVID-19,” said Drost.
Sharon Teare, herself a Personal Care worker at St John & St Stephen Home in Saint John and President of the NB Council of Nursing Home Unions, has been elected for a one-year term as CUPE NB’s First Vice-President. Drost and Teare will join Kim Copp on the CUPE NB inner executive. Copp is currently the CUPE NB Secretary Treasurer and works as an LPN at the Forestdale Home in Riverside Albert.
“With those two great leaders by my side, we have what it takes to mount the challenge against Blaine Higgs’s “Zeros for our Heroes” wage freeze plans and his anti-worker politics,” said Drost.
Drost has been president of CUPE Local 1418, Rehabilitation and Therapy since 2013. He began his career as a practising social worker in 1988. At present he is a Clinical 3 Social Worker and has been practising front line Social Work in Child Welfare his entire career.
“Brother Drost is a dedicated activist. I’m confident our Division and the labour movement will grow even stronger under his leadership,” said Brien Watson.
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Steve Drost, CUPE NB Presiden is asked by Blogger about Locked Out Worke...
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 22:39:40 +0000
Subject: RE: Higgy lets the cat out of the bag and reveals that he is
still messing with other people's pensions for the benefit of his
bankster buddies
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:33:45 -0300
Subject: YO Mr Jones do ya think Mr Higgs is reading CBC yet?
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Premier promises nursing home workers a new wage proposal they won't like
Offer will be presented this week or next and will be 'final,' premier says
CBC · Posted: Sep 24, 2019 3:40 PM AT
90 Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.
David Raymond Amos
I have been arguing the budget and pensions with Higgs and his cohorts
for years. The most memorable time was a after a debate with Rob Moore
the lawyer buddy of Higgs during the last federal election. I had some
fun but I bet Higgs was sorry he crossed paths with me that night. In
the last election during the only debate I was allowed to participate
in I explained again how I would go about us getting us out of debt
overnight and stop the lawsuits by merely honouring the deal with the
bureaucrats and teachers etc and their pension plans Bruce Northrup
nor anyone else dared to argue the common sense of such a simple idea.
I also repeated the simple idea on Rogers TV and it still can be
viewed to this very day.
Is anybody curious?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
Well as the people elected them and not you, I’d say they won that
debate, despite your evisiknist history. Heck they won it without even
needing to talk.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: I see the Irving shill is still dogging
me but whenever I respond to him I am blocked Go Figure whose side CBC
is on
Clarence Slydell
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
I posted this in reply to another poster on a different story but it
applies here as well.
"Johnny boy likes to argue. He likes to take the opposing side of any
topic and put his own oddball spin on it and then hang on with all his
might, kinda like a pitbull with it's jaws clamped down on whatever
victim it chooses, making stuff up as he goes along and most people
fall right into his trap engaging him while he giggles with glee at
the attention he's getting.
There is a word for this kind of behaviour on internet boards but CBC
doesn't like anyone to use it as they seem to enjoy the results that
it brings."
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Clarence Slydell: I figured that out months ago However the
real question is why does CBC block replies to him?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Clarence Slydell: BTW scroll to the bottom comment to see
what I said to Deschamps last night
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Clarence Slydell: BTW this is what he want folks to ignore
now that my name is on another ballot Obviously I am the first one to
speak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Ben Haroldson
It'll be final in his own mind. Time to call a new provincial
election.Between him and cardy, things are NOT good.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
Yes they were SOOOOO MUCH better when the libs bid $100m on some
sports games and gave their buddies six figure patronage jobs,
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
Yea ATCON was so much better.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: did I say anything about electing libs? I
have NEVER voted lib in my life. So figure it out wise guy.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: For that matter, I have NEVER voted pc
provincially either. I did use the fed pcs to get rid of the gun reg,
and I am going to do it again.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
What other choices are there, the greens and ndp will do the exact
same thing. It’s the whole core of party politics.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Waste yer vote. I usually vote for the party
or ind not aligned with gun control, heck I'd even vote for the DA if
he was running in my riding.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
The whole problem with turfing governments every four or eight years
is that they don’t have time to get anything accomplished in terms of
real change. They spend their time trying to undo the mess the
previous government left behind.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: On the pot thing, the big delay was for the
hairy man to get all his buds in the door.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
Yep cause there aren’t enough deaths due to guns in Toronto. Nobody
NEEDS a gun. People want them sure but they don’t need them.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Coruption is the problem. Doesn't matter who
gets in fed, or prov, every one of them passes through the event
horizon of the black hole of corruption. We need to get to the bottom
of that in a hurry.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: It's a hobby for me. I hunt, and I love wild
meat, and I love the woods. I'm not hurting a thing and I'm all legal,
but whenever something happens in the big smoke, I'm one of the ones
who gets punished.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
People hunted wild meat for millennia before guns...
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Well then why aren't we still doing it that way?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
You tell me, you are the one using the gun :)
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
remember Orimulsion??
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:" heck I'd even vote for the DA if he was
running in my riding."
Thank You Kind Sir
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Methinks you will like what I said about my
guns N'esy Pas?
Raising a Little Hell- Lively Debate Provokes Crowd
By Erin Hatfield
"If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your
world is all screwed up, rearrange it."
The 1979 Trooper song Raise a Little Hell blared on the speakers at
the 8th Hussars Sports Center Friday evening as people filed in to
watch the Fundy candidates debate the issues. It was an accurate, if
unofficial, theme song for the debate.
The crowd of over 200 spectators was dwarfed by the huge arena, but as
they chose their seats, it was clear the battle lines were drawn.
Supporters of Conservative candidate Rob Moore naturally took the blue
chairs on the right of the rink floor while John Herron's Liberalswent
left. There were splashes of orange, supporters of NDP Pat Hanratty,
mixed throughout. Perhaps the loudest applause came from a row towards
the back, where supporters of independent candidate David Amos sat."
"Staying true to party platforms for the most part, candidates
responded to questions about the gun registry, same sex marriage, the
exodus of young people from the Maritimes and regulated gas prices.
Herron and Moore were clear competitors,constantly challenging each
other on their answers and criticizing eachothers’ party leaders.
Hanratty flew under the radar, giving short, concise responses to the
questions while Amos provided some food for thought and a bit of comic
relief with quirky answers. "I was raised with a gun," Amos said in
response to the question of the national gun registry. "Nobody's
getting mine and I'm not paying 10 cents for it."
Johnny Horton
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
You mean how the liberals promised an inquiry until they got into
power and shut one down so the citizens couldn’t delve into the deal
they made for $338 million while having lost $700m on the
rifrvidhment,
Typica” liberal math though as long as some money coma in, it doesn’t
matter the actual cost.
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @David Raymond Amos: Good luck next time
Ben Haroldson
Reply to @Johnny Horton: " Nobody NEEDS a gun. People want them sure
but they don’t need them. " That statement is as liberal as it gets
around here, so you really don't know what you are or aren't.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Ben Haroldson:
I’m libertarian, no government.
But my political leanings have nothing to doe tin if people need a gun or not,
. Shoot, I’m not even opposed to guns. However people still don’t need
them despite what I actually think of them. That’s too separate issue.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: Next Time? I am on the the ballot in Fundy
Royal right now I don't need luck because I have no false illusions of
ever winning If you watched what I said on Rogers TV when I ran
against Bruce Northrup et al last fall you should have noticed that I
didn't ask anyone to vote for me. I use the political debates to
expose the public corruption in support of my litigation.
George Smith
Seems a significant number of Higgs appointments are Irving people. He
treats bargaining like the Irvings too. Welcome to the New Irving
government. I believe the others parties should defeat him and he'd be
thrown out of office. But that won't happen because they have a say in
this Minority Government and probably wouldn't have a say after a new
election.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @George Smith:
Why? So the liberals can again get in power and hire all their buddies
for the next frsncophonie games?
George Smith
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
So you support the new Irving run Government of N.B. We always knew
they ran our province no matter what party was in power. Higgs just
makes it official.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @George Smith:
So why it when one says something on the internet, it automatically
implies the opposite.
Can one not like either? Must one spell thst our in every single post,
Although I do support both parties limiting the raise to 1% like all
the other groups got.
I do find it very hypocritical though that suddenly the liberals want
blood on this file. It’s just so bloody transparent politics. For
something hike in power, against it while not in power. Thst goes for
many things including in this case, patronage sppoitments and the 1%
raise.
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Horton are you an Irving employee???
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Of course he is
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Lewis Taylor:
Right, so one can’t criticize the other side, if they do. They clearly
work for Irving, left wing logic.
One csn dislike bofh you know, it doesn’t need to be pointed out in
every post everything gone dislikes,
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: Its a waste of precious time arguing with an
Irving However an Irving Newsrag did tell a little truth about me
years ago
The Unconventional Candidate
David Amos Isn’t Campaigning For Your Vote, But….
By Gisele McKnight
FUNDY—He has a pack of cigarettes in his shirt pocket, a chain on his
wallet, a beard at least a foot long, 60 motorcycles and a cell phone
that rings to the tune of "Yankee Doodle."
Meet the latest addition to the Fundy ballot—David Amos.
The independent candidate lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife
and two children, but his place of residence does not stop him from
running for office in Canada.
One has only to be at least 18, a Canadian citizen and not be in jail
to meet Elections Canada requirements.
When it came time to launch his political crusade, Amos chose his
favourite place to do so—Fundy.
Amos, 52, is running for political office because of his
dissatisfaction with politicians.
"I’ve become aware of much corruption involving our two countries," he
said. "The only way to fix corruption is in the political forum."
The journey that eventually led Amos to politics began in Sussex in
1987. He woke up one morning disillusioned with life and decided he
needed to change his life.
"I lost my faith in mankind," he said. "People go through that
sometimes in midlife."
So Amos, who’d lived in Sussex since 1973, closed his Four Corners
motorcycle shop, paid his bills and hit the road with Annie, his 1952
Panhead motorcycle.
"Annie and I rode around for awhile (three years, to be exact)
experiencing the milk of human kindness," he said. "This is how you
renew your faith in mankind – you help anyone you can, you never ask
for anything, but you take what they offer."
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
For those three years, they offered food, a place to sleep, odd jobs
and conversation all over North America.
Since he and Annie stopped wandering, he has married, fathered a son
and a daughter and become a house-husband – Mr. Mom, as he calls
himself.
He also describes himself in far more colourful terms—a motorcyclist
rather than a biker, a "fun-loving, free-thinking, pig-headed
individual," a "pissed-off Maritimer" rather than an activist, a proud
Canadian and a "wild colonial boy."
Ironically, the man who is running for office has never voted in his life.
"But I have no right to criticize unless I offer my name," he said.
"It’s alright to ***** in the kitchen, but can you walk the walk?"
What he’s fighting for is the discussion of issues – tainted blood,
the exploitation of the Maritimes’ gas and oil reserves and NAFTA, to
name a few.
"The political issues in the Maritimes involve the three Fs – fishing,
farming and forestry, but they forget foreign issues," he said. "I’m
death on NAFTA, the back room deals and free trade. I say chuck it
(NAFTA) out the window.
NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement which allows an
easier flow of goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico.
Amos disagrees with the idea that a vote for him is a wasted vote.
"There are no wasted votes," he said. "I want people like me,
especially young people, to pay attention and exercise their right.
Don’t necessarily vote for me, but vote."
Although…if you’re going to vote anyway, Amos would be happy to have
your X by his name.
"I want people to go into that voting booth, see my name, laugh and
say, ‘what the hell.’"
Johnny Horton
It’s hilarious watching all the liberals foaming at the bit for Higgs
had over this - w%%hen the liberals had the file for over two years
and made basically the exact same offer.
Lewis TaylorContent disabled
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Irving Boy!
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: I call him an Irving shill
Kyle Woodman
How can Higgs, on the one hand, say we have no money but then appoint
a partisan "tourism consultant" with no credentials to a newly created
position for $175,000 /year +expenses. We are already paying a
qualified deputy minister to do that job. Dosen't sound like "finding
efficiencies" to me.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
So as long as the money goes instead to this special interest group
instead of that special interest
group, it’s okay?
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: what special interest group is Yetta Hurley part of?
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
Special interest group, as in a group looking out for their own
special interests,
Kyle Woodman
Reply to @Johnny Horton: you think you're pretty smart, don't you. It
comes across as arrogance.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Kyle Woodman:
I don’t see why pointing out s group of people wanting a raise higher
than what every other government group has gotten is arrogant, and
it’s certainly self interest to demand a raise more than others got.
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Kyle Woodman: I truly believe he is as dumb as post
Johnny Horton
All those poor stressed out laundry workers need their 20% raise.
George Smith
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Just wondering which Irving company you work for.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @George Smith:
I don’t work for Irving never did. I do however though think
government wages should be in line with private sector wages for the
same job,
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
You could get a job and work in a nursing home?
David Raymond Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Johnny Horton: Pure D BS
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Lewis Taylor:
If they’d hire me without needing to join a union so I can negotiate
my own job description and salary. Sure, I could leave retirement to
pitch in,
Matt Steele
Govt. workers need to realize that N.B. is broke , and the TAXPAYERS
ARE MAXED OUT . The Province currently has a 14 BILLION dollar debt ;
and pays around 2 MILLION per day just in interest . Maybe if these
Govt. workers want more money , they should get a job in the private
sector , and see what they are getting paid . No one is forcing these
workers to work for govt. as they can quit any time that they wish
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Matt Steele: Cry me another river
SarahRose Werner
"This has to be a team." - Oh, yeah, telling people, "You won't like
this but it's final," that's a really great way to inspire team work.
Being a team depends on trust, and Higgs has yet to give the workers
any reasons to trust him.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @SarahRose Werner:
The “team” is the group of workers that get paid by the government.
The Rest of the team has accepted 1%.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: Where the elusive Higgs Bozon worked
before, he used to tell people what to do. That's what he calls team
work.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Lewis Taylor
Reply to @Johnny Horton:
Not so popular...IRving boy
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Lewis Taylor: HMMMM
Paul Bourgoin
One has to understand that here in New Brunswick subsidies to industry
who milk government funds, benefit from tax breaks are more important
than services to the owners of New Brunswick, the RESIDENTS!
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Paul tha
One has to understand that here in NB, one is part of a system. that
if one gets 20%, sll have to get 20%. Thst as everyone else has
accepted 1%, they must accept that is what they will get too.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Johnny Horton: I always thought you CONservative supporters
understood the market forces of capitalism and offer and demand? -
Maybe the elusive Higgs Bozon will, too late, he'll finally see, that
health care workers have gone somewhere else.
Johnny Horton
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps:
First off I’m not conservative.
You do know people can be something other than a lib or a con right?
Secondly. There is nothing capitalist nor supply and demand about a union.
Drop the union, let each worker negotiate their own value, then you’ll
actually have capitalism,
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Johnny Horton: then what are you, green?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Marguerite Deschamps: Methinks he is playing you like a
fiddle N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/
Final offer from province still not enough, nursing home union says
Union leaders expect wage proposal will be rejected by members,
prolonging the dispute
Jacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Sep 27, 2019 11:35 AM AT
149 Comments
David Raymond Amos
"We're willing to wait out the premier on that [St. Croix] byelection,
and we can count, and he can count too," Cormier said. "If he loses
that byelection, we can count as well. His government could fall."
Methinks the old Union dudes are as dumb as posts anyone with half a
clue can see Higgs is baiting people on many fronts so that an
election will be called while the liberals are in the toilet. Clearly
the Ex-Cor Clown thinks he can win a majority next time around.
However the Green Meanies and the PANB Wackos may serve upon Higgs and
Vickers a rather shocking surprise if enough folks get tired of the NB
Power nonsense such a 100 million for "Not So Smart" meters and huge
NB Power payout to the the Irvings et al byway of Large Industrial
Renewable Energy Purchase Program which was unveiled by the Alward
government in 2011 N'esy Pas?
I bet Higgs remembers this headline
EUB challenges NB Power to reveal analysis of political burden
Crown corporation resists full disclosure of cost analysis to protect
commercially sensitive information
Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Apr 29, 2016 7:23 AM AT
David Raymond Amos
Methinks the ghost of Lofty MacMillan is laughing at this nonsense
while the mean mouthed little Bobby Davidson is is crying because he
ain't involved in this war of words N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
"We can't wait to see that clock run out in Charlotte County because
we'll certainly be in Charlotte County to ask the Tory candidate what
he thinks of the nursing home workers in his riding that he or she
would be representing," said union first vice-president Roland
Cormier."
Too Too Funny Methinks they were serious and wished to force political
showdown with Higgs the Union dudes should be asking Gallant to stay
in his seat awhile longer and asking the liberal MLA to step down from
the Speakers Chair ASAP N'esy Pas?
David Raymond Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @David Raymond Amos:
What do you think David? 48 hour flu coming right up?
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Methinks its par for the course N'esy Pas?
Chantal LeBouthi
On radio Canada Robert gauvin is telling austerity
Ray Bungay
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Yes and the City of Saint John wants its
workers to settle for around 1%, like when pigs fly!
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @Chantal LeBouthi: Methinks some folks know that Robert
Gauvin is just a comedian who has links with the Irving Clan's media
Hence he will never be reelected on the North Shore Perhaps he should
move to Saint John Harbour and run there next time next time Everybody
in Fat Fred City knows that Stinktown could use a good laugh or two
these days N'esy Pas?
Michael Levesque
we got money for Rodney Weston and Dana Glendenning to collect NB
taxpayer funded pension checks they DID NOT QUALIFY FOR bur we got no
money for valuable home care workers.
David Raymond Amos
Reply to @michael levesque: Methinks you should ask yourself why I am
humming that old Pink Floyd tune called "Us and Them" Trust that the
Union bosses doing all the yapping are just playing their part at the
circus because their wages and pensions are secure N'esy Pas?
"Up and down.
But in the end it's only round and round.
Haven't you heard it's a battle of words
The poster bearer cried."
On 9/26/19, David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/
>
> New Brunswick deep in the black — again
>
> PCs may not be able to take all the credit for $72.6M budget surplus
> Robert Jones · CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2019 6:00 AM AT
>
> 64 comments
>
> David Raymond Amos
> "Despite the surplus, New Brunswick's debt still grew slightly, by
> $32.7 million, because of the ongoing addition of new capital assets."
>
> Go figure why Higgs and Holland are ignoring NB Power wish to add
> another 100 million to our deft for "not So Smart Meters" after the
> EUB had turned them down under Gallant's mandate
>
Premier Higgs heard CUPE members loud and clear
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Over 5,000 striking frontline workers, CUPE
leaders from other provinces and supporters marched on the New
Brunswick legislature to send a message to Premier Blaine Higgs and the
governing PC Party. That message was heard loud and clear as it was reported by news outlets that the crowd noise and speeches from outside could be heard throughout the building.
MLAs were returning to the legislature on what was supposed to be the opening day of the new legislative session, however, Premier Higgs announced earlier that they would cancel the throne speech and extend the previous session. Many expected this move would set the stage for the announcement of back to work legislation. However, no such legislation was announced.
The rally began after two separate marches of frontline workers and supporters converged on the steps of the legislature. CUPE NB President Steve Drost addressed the crowd, reminding frontline workers that they hold the power when they work together. He introduced the presidents of all 10 striking locals, who called upon their members in the crowd to make themselves heard. CUPE Maritimes Regional Director Sandy Harding called Premier Higgs out to a bargaining table that was set up at the steps and read out the last bargaining positions before Higgs had walked away from negotiations.
CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock delivered an energetic speech, calling out Premier Higgs for his allegiances to the billionaire Irving Family and correcting the premier on his claim that the strike is being run by the “CUPE National machine”. “The CUPE machine,” Hancock said, “is each and every one of you who voted to take strike action and are walking picket lines until the government pays you what you’re worth.” National Secretary Charles Fleury also addressed the crowd, strengthening the striking workers’ resolve proclaiming that “sometimes we have no choice but to take to the streets, and we’ll stay on the streets until we get the contract we deserve.”
The province-wide strike will enter its sixth day tomorrow. CUPE New Brunswick’s Central Bargaining Team is still waiting for the Higgs government to return to the bargaining table.
CUPE joins court challenge over violation of Charter rights by the Province of New Brunswick
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Fredericton, NB – The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has served the province of New Brunswick with a Notice of Motion to intervene in a lawsuit launched by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) against the unilateral conversion of the province’s Public Service Pension Plan into a Shared Risk Pension Plan.
“The rights of CUPE members and many other public sector workers were violated when the government unilaterally imposed pension changes on workers, in violation of their right to free collective bargaining,” said Daniel Légère, president of CUPE NB.
In December of 2013, the Province adopted Bill 11 - An Act Respecting Pensions which converted the province’s pension plan - to which CUPE’s members belong - into a so-called ‘shared risk’ pension plan. Far from sharing risk, however, the effect of the conversion was to reduce benefits and shift substantial pension risk from the province to CUPE members and other public servants.
The conversion significantly reduced the benefits provided by the pension plan, significantly reduced the security of benefits and barred any collective agreement provisions that could improve members’ pension benefits in the future.
“These changes violated our members’ rights under section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (the “Charter”),” said Légère. “CUPE fully supports this court challenge and will intervene to defend our members’ rights.”
A Statement of Claim filed by PIPSC in February of this year alleges that the statutory imposition of the shared risk model, together with the denial of fundamental collective bargaining rights, substantially interfere with the guarantee of freedom of association protected by section 2(d) of the Charter. CUPE’s intervention will support the challenge on that basis.
CUPE has also sought full disclosure under the Province’s Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act in accordance with the government’s promise of transparency and openness in regard to the conversion. However, notwithstanding findings in favour of disclosure by the Province’s Office of the Access to Information and Privacy Commissioner in a decision dated March 4, 2016, access to conversion relevant materials has so far been denied.
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Outgoing CUPE NB president Daniel Légère praised as “an elevater”
A chapter in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) New Brunswick’s history has closed with Daniel Légère’s end of tenure as the union’s president. Labour leaders and social justice advocates in New Brunswick are remembering his time as president as a remarkable one for leadership and solidarity.
At the CUPE NB Convention in Fredericton on April 11, members of the province’s largest union elected a new president, Brien Watson. Watson will replace Légère, who held the position for 14 years.
Patrick Colford, president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, calls Légère “an elevater.”
“As Nelson Mandela once said, ‘It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.’ This quote summarizes Danny Légère’s leadership style. He has always been an elevater, lifting people up and helping them both realize their full potential and ensuring that they reach their potential,” says Colford.
Légère’s union activism began the day he became a worker almost 40 years ago. As a correctional officer in St. Hilaire, he became the shop steward and was supporting worker grievances before he had even passed his probationary period.
Sandy Harding, Vice-President of CUPE NB, says, “Danny is a principled, passionate and dedicated leader. During his 14 years as CUPE NB president, he grew the membership and engaged workers the likes of which has not been seen in decades. He left CUPE NB in a better and stronger place.”
Making L’Acadie Nouvelle’s top 30 list of most influential New Brunswick francophones in 2017 and 2018, Légère has been a spokesperson for better wages and pensions, pay equity, new legislation on first contract arbitration and a critical voice against privatization of health care and public services.
Not only a fierce defender of his union’s membership, which includes nursing home workers, health care workers, child care providers, school bus drivers, librarians and other workers across the province, Légère can also be found on picket lines and rallies in solidarity with other workers and marginalized groups here in New Brunswick and across the world.
David Frank, a labour historian, notes Légère’s social unionism. According to Frank, “The most important thing to know about Danny Légère is that he came up through the ranks of a union that values active membership engagement at all levels, from its locals and councils to the provincial division. As a leader, he has helped make CUPE NB a strong voice for the kind of social unionism that advances the interests of all working people in the province.”
A strong supporter of CUPE’s global justice campaigns, Légère is also active with the New Democratic Party and the Common Front for Social Justice, the province’s largest anti-poverty group.
Légère has joined other union leaders and students to protest the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, extended his support to Colombian and Filipino workers at times that called for cross-border worker solidarity, and joined Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik peoples and allies at Idle No More actions.
“Danny has been a friend, a mentor, and a confident to so many during his tenure as CUPE NB president. He will leave a huge void there, but with his leadership and mentoring he has paved away for other leaders to take the reins. Danny has garnered the respect of Canadians from coast to coast to coast. His legacy will live on throughout the labour movement for many, many years to come,” says Colford.
Tracy Glynn, an editorial board member of the NB Media Co-op, has worked with Daniel Légère in numerous coalitions and networks, including in solidarity with workers in Colombia.
https://fednb.ca/about/executive/
2019-2021 Executive Council
Executive Officers
Daniel Légère, CUPE
President
Brian Duplessis, ILA
Secretary - Treasurer
Chris Watson, CUPE
1st Vice President
Amanda Coughlan
2nd Vice President
Heather Fraser, PSAC
Vice-President responsible for Women’s Issues
Armando Flores
Vice-President responsible for Young Workers
Union Vice-Presidents – 5,000 and more members |
|
| Sandy Harding | CUPE |
| Stephen Drost | CUPE |
| Shanny Doucet | PSAC |
| Joey Dunphy | PSAC |
| Paula Doucet | NBNU |
| Maria Richard | NBNU |
Union Vice-Presidents – 800 to 5,000 members |
|
| Dave Dudley | CUPW |
| Daniel Smith | UFCW |
| Carla Thibodeau | USW |
| Wayne Brown | NBFUR |
Union Vice-Presidents – less than 800 members |
|
| George Leaman | BCTGM |
| Larry Cook | IAFF |
Labour Councils’ Vice-Presidents |
|
| Kevin Suttie- Saint John | CUPW |
| David Meade – Fredericton | PSAC |
| Lorn Martin – Edmundston | CUPE |
| Vacant- Restigouche | |
| Vacant – Miramichi | |
| Melissa Brown – Moncton | CUPE |
| Serge Plourde- Bathurst | CUPE |
Canadian Labour Congress |
|
| Alex Furlong | Atlantic Regional Director |
| Serge Landry | Regional Representative |
https://fednb.ca/open-letter-to-premier-higgs-land-acknowledgments/
Open Letter to Premier Higgs-Land Acknowledgments
Hon. Blaine Higgs
Premier, Government of New Brunswick
Chancery Place
P.O. Box 6000
Fredericton, NB E3B 5H1
(Open letter)
October 20, 2021
Dear Premier Higgs,
We [I] would like to begin by acknowledging that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1726. (NBFL Land Acknowledgment)
Like many union, social and community organizations, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour (NBFL) starts all of its meetings and events with a land acknowledgment. We believe that this is an important step towards reconciliation by acknowledging a historical fact.
I was pleased to see the significant presence of Indigenous peoples at the New Brunswick Day celebrations this year. I was hopeful that our government was taking a huge step towards reconciliation in our province. However, my hope was tempered by the recent directive from your government for public servants not to refer to the land being unceded or unsurrendered in land acknowledgments.
On behalf of the 38,000 affiliated members of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, I am calling on you to reconsider this position and withdraw this directive. It divides our communities even further in New Brunswick.
Sincerely,
Daniel Legere
President, New Brunswick Federation of Labour
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Subject: Higgy lets the cat out of the bag and reveals that he is
still messing with other people's pensions for the benefit of his
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 19:38:22 -0300
Subject: Higgy lets the cat out of the bag and reveals that he is
still messing with other people's pensions for the benefit of his
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The CBC News is Too Too Funny today Methinks the LIEbranos and CUPE could use a little Deja Vu N'esy Pas Ross Wetmore?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/protest-legislature-cupe-strike-1.6234204
Thousands march to legislature in massive protest on Day 5 of CUPE strike
Public-sector workers, supporters from across Canada gather outside as new session of legislature begins
Busloads of participants arrived from across the country to join the demonstration, held on Day 5 of a strike by 22,000 provincial employees who are members of Canadian Union of Public Employees.
CUPE leaders and workers from across Canada showed up in support of the New Brunswick workers.
Police estimated several thousand participants were at the demonstration, which filled the lawn of the legislature and spilled onto the sidewalks. Noise from the gathering could be heard blocks away.
As the provincial government resumed a session that had been adjourned in June, protesters chanted and blew noisemakers, and CUPE leaders gave speeches on the lawn of the legislature.
While police officers directed traffic that slowed to a crawl, demonstrators set up dozens of empty tables, signalling they were ready to get back to the bargaining table.
An aerial view of the demonstration at the legislature. (Mikael Mayer/Radio-Canada)
On Monday afternoon, the Higgs government cancelled a planned speech from the throne that would have kicked off a new session of the legislature Tuesday.
The move made it easier for the province to introduce and quickly pass back-to-work legislation to end the strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, something Premier Blaine Higgs has been talking about for days.
Higgs told reporters Monday afternoon that a bill would not come Tuesday but could happen at any time, depending on how the strike affects health-care services.
The strike involves 22,000 government workers in 10 locals, including health care, education, transportation and agricultural sectors, as well as social workers, jail guards, court stenographers and staff at WorkSafeNB and New Brunswick community colleges.
With files from Mrinali Anchan
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices
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Tuesday, 2 November 2021
C.U.P.E. Locked out Workers marches towards the New Brunswick Legislatur...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/higgs-cupe-pension-labour-strike-1.6234521
Higgs wants striking employees to be willing to discuss pension changes
On Day 5 of government employees' strike, N.B. premier says province could return to bargaining table soon
Higgs and his government were pounded inside the legislature by opposition parties and outside by a large, noisy throng of striking CUPE members and supporters as the legislature reconvened for the first time since June.
The labour dispute dominated Question Period, with the Liberals and Greens pressing him to move quickly to make a deal.
"This is not a chicken dance," Opposition Liberal Leader Roger Melanson said, referring to the premier's onstage gyrations during New Brunswick Day celebrations in August. "This is serious."
Melanson accused the premier of dancing from position to position on the strike as well, threatening back-to-work legislation on the one hand while offering to talk on the other.
"It's confusing, all over the place, disoriented, disorganized," he said.
The
government got a noisy welcome to the legislature on Tuesday by
thousands of striking and locked-out public sector workers and
supporters. (Jacques Poitras/CBC News)
Higgs told reporters he is prepared to talk to CUPE.
"I'd be, certainly, be willing to do that," he said. "I'd expect that one way or the other there will be some discussions about next steps and that would be getting back to the table."
But he said if talks resume, "there's got to be an openness that it's because we're going to find a resolution, not because we spent two or three or four or five or six days on the picket line."
The government and the union have made competing wage proposals only one percentage point apart.
A key sticking point is the premier's push to add the CUPE local representing school bus drivers to the province's shared-risk pension plan, a regime that relieves the province of having to top up pension shortfalls with taxpayer dollars.
In return, Higgs is offering to bring 2,200 educational assistants into the plan, giving them a pension for the first time.
He is accusing CUPE of resisting the shift to shared-risk for the bus drivers because the national parent union has been fighting shared-risk plans Canada-wide.
Green
Leader David Coon and Liberal Leader Roger Melanson both urged the
premier to drop his insistence on talking about pension changes in these
negotiations. (CBC)
But opposition leaders say it's Higgs who is being stubborn.
"Putting this pension issue on the table, which is only affecting two locals, is taking hostage the rest," Melanson said.
Green Party leader David Coon urged Higgs to put the issue aside.
"It's pure insanity that he's insisting that this pension issue be dealt with in the context of these negotiations," Coon said.
"He's got to stop that, take it off the table. He'll be back to the table immediately if he does that and we'll have a fair wage settlement before the end of the week. I can guarantee you that."
Higgs said Tuesday there's been no further discussion about back-to-work legislation to force an end to the strike.
But he said that if that happens, the bill will be far-reaching, imposing wage settlements not just on the more than 20,000 CUPE members in the current dispute but on 55,000 unionized public-sector employees.
"Whatever we do with CUPE, it will apply to 55,000 employees," Higgs said, meaning "all unions. … It would be our wage mandate for government if we did that."
He said that would include nurses, who have twice rejected tentative agreements this year.
"If you look at legislation that has been put in on a wage bill anywhere in the country, you don't pick and choose. It is the wage bill for government."
But he added, "It's not my goal to have a legislated wage mandate. That's not my goal. I certainly would like to have a negotiated settlement."
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Monday, 1 November 2021
Striking C.U.P.E Members protesting at the Chancery Place in Fredericton!!!
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 16:25:19 +0000
Subject: RE: The CBC News is Too Too Funny today Methinks the
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Higgs once praised 'fair' union wages he now says are too high
In real terms, wages were higher six years ago following increases Higgs himself approved
He praised the higher rates at the time as "fair to both employees and taxpayers."
That's not the position he has taken recently as the labour dispute that has pitted thousands of New Brunswick government employees in multiple union locals against the province drags into its fifth day.
A central issue in the confrontation, according to labour historian and University of New Brunswick professor emeritus David Frank, is what, if anything, should be done about the erosion of employee wages by inflation.
"Do we want them to have good jobs ... or do we want services at the cheapest possible price?" Frank said in an interview with CBC News on Monday.
"Obviously there's a distinction, and CUPE's bargaining position is that real wages should not be going down in the face of inflation."
More than 20,000 unionized New Brunswick government
employees in several CUPE locals are caught up in the labour dispute.
(Patrick Lacelle/Radio-Canada)
'It's easy to argue inflation': Higgs
Last Friday, when the strike began, Higgs said that should not be a concern because public-sector wages and benefits are better than those available from private employers and can withstand some erosion.
"The wages are very good in the public sector," Higgs told CBC News, in explaining why matching the cost of living is not an issue he sympathizes with.
"I know it's easy to argue inflation," he said. "But it's where you start. And what I'm seeing here is that they're starting at a very strong level."
Higgs appeared to blame previous New Brunswick governments for letting employee wages escalate, even though he had a direct hand in guiding the issue for several years.
As finance minister in the former Progressive Conservative government of David Alward, Higgs was involved in approving wage rates he now complains are too high, even though in real terms they are lower now than where he left them.
In June 2013, the Alward government signed a four-year deal with hospital workers in CUPE Local 1252, one of the unions involved in the current fight. That deal involved a two-year wage freeze, followed by two years of two-per-cent increases.
The contract expired in June 2015 after the Alward government was defeated, and employee wages have shrunk significantly in real terms since then, due to inflation.
Local 1252 signed another four-year agreement after 2015 with the former Liberal government of Brian Gallant that included a series of raises totalling 4.1 per cent.
But the Consumer Price Index in New Brunswick has increased 13.5 per cent since then.
That makes the 2014 and 2015 wage levels for CUPE Local 1252, set during Higgs's term as finance minister, richer than current levels.
CUPE New Brunswick president Steve Drost says government
employees' wages have been eroded in recent years by inflation. (Jacques
Poitras/CBC News)
Similar case for educational workers
It's a similar case with educational workers in CUPE Local 2745, who are also caught up in the current fight.
They struck a four-year deal with the Alward government in 2011, with wages Higgs praised at the time as reasonable for all sides. Their wage rates are less now in real terms than they were when that contract expired in 2015.
"The key aspect of this agreement, from our perspective, is that it respects the wage restraint policy which provides for two years of zero increases followed by two-per-cent increases in each of the final two years," Higgs said at the time.
"By working collaboratively in this negotiation process, both parties have proven that we can reach an agreement that is fair to our valued public servants while still respecting New Brunswick's fiscal challenges."
Higgs has not said why wages he once hailed as fair are now thought to be too high, especially after being shrunk by inflation. But David Frank said the view the public ultimately takes on the wage issue will play a big role in which side backs down.
"Public responses to those two visions perhaps will have some effect on what government and the unions decide to do," Frank said.
CUPE is asking for a combined 12 per cent wage increase over four years.
The province briefly offered 10 per cent over five years, but reduced it to 8.5 per cent when union negotiators declined the offer.
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Province wrong to stop paying EAs designated essential during strike, board rules
Board sided with educational assistants' union after it filed a complaint against New Brunswick government
Over the weekend, the province locked out all non-essential EAs, who are part of a strike by thousands of provincial government employees that began Friday. Striking employees do not get paid.
But when the province decided to have students learn from home, the 45 per cent of EAs designated essential and therefore unable to join the strike were asked to stay home without pay.
The labour board decided this was against the law and asked the province to cease and desist immediately.
An order says refusing to allow essential EAs to work, and refusing to pay them, is against labour law.
In a post on Facebook, CUPE Local 2745 said lawyers for the union made their case at a virtual hearing Monday afternoon. The union says designated workers could return to their workplace Tuesday.
But Education Minister Dominic Cardy is asking EAs not to go to school. He said teachers and students are working from home because with custodians out, cleaning standards cannot be maintained.
"We're asking them not to come to work, that the labour board ... ruling absolutely stands, so their pay isn't affected at all," he told Information Morning Fredericton.
He did not say why the province was not paying essential EAs, but said the education system will try to integrate them into home learning.
"We have to make sure that we have to be able to integrate them into something we can do to help support home learning, if that ends up being possible," he said.
Cardy previously said the 1,700 EAs designated essential would not be enough to keep children learning well from schools, and the province has ordered all schools to teach remotely because CUPE's strike schedule has been "unpredictable."
'In it to win it'
Local 2745 president Theresa McAllister said that over the weekend, the designated EAs received an email saying "there was no work available for them to do," since students will be learning remotely. That's when CUPE decided to file the complaint.
McAllister said the union asked workers to go into schools Tuesday, but their respective schools said stay home and you will be paid.
McAllister said the favourable decision has boosted morale for those on the picket lines.
"It has really boosted their spirits, that we're in it to win it," she said in an interview.
With files from Information Morning Fredericton
Ordering CUPE back to work won't be a simple process for Higgs, says labour lawyer
Premier is threatening to create back-to-work legislation for at least some CUPE workers
Premier Blaine Higgs says he's looking at back-to-work legislation that would order some or all striking members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees to end their walkout.
But that route is not a simple one. Nor is the premier's other option: using the province's COVID-19 state of emergency.
No provincial government in Canada has used back-to-work legislation since 2015, when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the right to strike is protected by the Constitution, says Ottawa labour lawyer Paul Champ.
"No one has tried it," he says. "I'm sure government lawyers across the country have looked at it and decided to step away, and I'd be interested to see if New Brunswick thinks somehow that they can get away with it."
Paul
Champ, an Ottawa lawyer who specializes in labour law, says no
government in Canada has attempted back-to-work legislation since the
Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the right to strike is protected. (Jean Delisle/ CBC)
The 2015 ruling quashed the Saskatchewan government's attempt to unilaterally decide which unionized workers were essential and then ban them from striking.
"The right to strike is an essential part of a meaningful collective bargaining process in our system of labour relations," it said. "It is an indispensable component of that right."
Champ says that means any government seeking to restrict that right "is going to have an uphill battle to try to justify it."
Another obstacle is timing.
The government swept away one time-gobbling obstacle Monday by cancelling the speech from the throne scheduled for Tuesday.
In 2015, the Supreme Court quashed an effort by Saskatchewan
to unilaterally declare striking workers essential. (Justin Tang/The
Canadian Press)
That also means no Official Opposition reply to the speech Thursday, freeing up two days for regular business.
"Not having a throne speech does give us additional flexibility that allows us to move quicker as needed," Higgs said Monday, though he said there would be no bill introduced Tuesday.
Still, any bill must be read and voted on three times and must also go through a committee review.
And under the legislature's rules, each of those four steps must happen on a different sitting day.
The only way that timeline can be further compressed is if all MLAs grant unanimous consent to bypass the rules, something Green Party house leader Kevin Arseneau says will not happen.
Green Party house leader Kevin Arseneau says his party would
not agree to speeding up the process of a back-to-work bill. (Jacques
Poitras/CBC)
"Absolutely not," he says. "There will be no unanimous consent for back-to-work legislation. Absolutely not."
Arseneau says on top of refusing to consent to accelerating the timeline, the Greens are also looking at other procedural tools to slow it down.
"There's many different ways of slowing down or putting pressure on bills," Arseneau says.
If a bill is eventually passed, it will likely be subject to a legal challenge based on the 2015 Saskatchewan case, Champ says.
Higgs said Monday that a back-to-work bill would also include a "wage mandate" to impose pay increases on CUPE rather than sending that issue to binding arbitration.
Premier
Blaine Higgs says his government could use the emergency order to force
striking employees back to work if the strike impacts health-care
services. (Government of New Brunswick)
He also said another option is the Emergency Measures Act, which says the province can "provide for the maintenance and restoration of essential facilities" during an emergency.
That would apply only narrowly to "more specific" situations that affect pandemic efforts, he said.
The emergency order is also subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Champ says applying it to only a very narrow number of health workers would be the only way it would have a chance of surviving a court challenge.
But even then, he says the province may have a hard time.
Clerical and housekeeping staff who had been working at regional health authority clinics are members of CUPE Local 1252 but were not designated essential, so they're able to strike.
Norma
Robinson of CUPE says the province has had plenty of time to seek
redesignation of workers as essential but has never done so. (CBC)
The designation of essential workers happened before the clinics began operating, and CUPE has not agreed to change the designation now that the strike is underway.
CUPE 1252 president Norma Robinson said the dispute has been on the horizon for months and the province didn't approach the union about redesignation until the last few days.
"They had lots of time," she said.
The government could also have asked the New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board by now for a redesignation, Champ says.
"If New Brunswick was running into a potential labour dispute some time ago and they had a designated worker list that was pre-COVID, I would think it would have been incumbent on the government to bring such an application before the labour board before they reach a situation of crisis."
Because it hasn't done so, he says it will be hard to argue during any legal challenge that the province had no choice but to use a back-to-work bill or the emergency order to force those workers back to work.
Corrections
- An earlier version of this story said no government in Canada has used back-to-work legislation since 2015. This was based on erroneous information from Paul Champ. In fact the federal government passed back-to-work legislation in 2018 to stop rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. That legislation was challenged by CUPW using the 2015 Supreme Court ruling. The case remains before the courts.Nov 02, 2021 12:11 PM AT
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Higgs government cancels throne speech, but rules out back-to-work bill Tuesday
Move could allow government to bring in back-to-work legislation quicker
The move would make it easier for the province to introduce and quickly pass back-to-work legislation to end the strike by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, something Premier Blaine Higgs has been talking about for days.
"Clearly the government is improvising in trying to get this back-to-work legislation as quick as possible," said Green Party house leader Kevin Arseneau. "What it signals is there's absolutely no willingness to get back to the table."
Higgs told reporters Monday afternoon that a bill would not come Tuesday but could happen at any time, depending on how the strike affects health-care services.
"It's going to be a day-by-day thing, but … not having a throne speech does give us additional flexibility that allows us to move quicker as needed."
Speaker Bill Oliver notified MLAs on Monday afternoon that he was cancelling an 11 a.m. sitting that would have prorogued the existing session, a necessary step before the new session could start with the throne speech.
The speech drafted by the government and delivered by Lt.-Gov. Brenda Murphy had been scheduled for 1 p.m.
But Oliver's notice says MLAs will convene instead at 1 p.m. "for the purpose of resuming" the existing session.
Under house rules, no legislation can be introduced on a day set aside for a throne speech or for the Official Opposition's reply to the speech, which would have taken place Thursday.
Now Tuesday and Thursday are both freed up for regular sitting days, which shortens the time required to get urgent legislation passed.
Any bill before the legislature must be read and voted on three times and must also go through a committee review.
Each of the four steps must happen on separate sitting days unless all MLAs consent unanimously to waive that rule, something Arseneau said Monday his party will not agree to.
"Absolutely not," he said. "There will be no unanimous consent for back-to-work legislation. Absolutely not."
Some COVID-19 vaccination clinics and testing centres have been closed as a result of the strike.
More than 20,000 unionized public-sector workers in 10 different CUPE locals have been without contracts for years. The first workers walked off the job on Friday, with others joining them on the weekend.
Higgs said on the weekend that the COVID impact was a possible trigger for back-to-work legislation or an emergency order.
"CUPE is saying, 'It's all right for New Brunswickers to go without screening during a pandemic,'" he said. "They're saying they're willing to allow potential symptomatic and positive individuals to go into vulnerable locations and cause further infections.
"I don't think that is right, and I don't think New Brunswickers think it is right either."
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Province wrong to stop paying EAs designated essential during strike,
board rules
Board sided with educational assistants' union after it filed a
complaint against New Brunswick government
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Ordering CUPE back to work won't be a simple process for Higgs, says
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Premier is threatening to create back-to-work legislation for at least
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Charges dropped against Liberal MLA
The charges against a Liberal MLA accused of allegedly punching a Conservative party employee have been dropped.
The charges were dropped by the Crown prosecution on Wednesday after it was heard in the Fredericton provincial court that Chris Collins, the representative for Moncton East, had fulfilled conditions of an alternative-measures program by doing community service.
Collins allegedly got into a confrontation with another man, who works for the Conservative party, at the Back Nine Bar on Dec. 19 and allegedly struck him several times. Collins was later charged with summary assault.
In a written statement in January, Collins apologized for his actions, saying, "I deeply regret allowing myself to become involved in such an incident. It was completely out of character for me."
Collins is a former Moncton city councillor. He was elected to the provincial riding of Moncton East in March 2007 byelection after former premier Bernard Lord resigned from politics.
Collins' 12-year-old son Sean died of cancer in July 2007.
The alternative-measures program sometimes allows citizens without a criminal record to take alternative actions with the victim and the community to promote reconciliation and avoid acquiring a record.
The court heard Collins performed volunteer work with a charitable group and completed the terms of the program on June 11.
The prosecution was brought in from Nova Scotia because of Collins's position in the government.
MLA's executive assistant charged with assault of provincial employee
Shawn Douthwright is scheduled to make an appearance in Moncton court on Friday
Shawn Douthwright, the executive assistant to Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Minister Ross Wetmore, is being charged with assaulting a provincial road worker.
Court documents say the alleged assault on Scott McLaughlan took place on July 4, 2019, near Second North River, about 28 kilometres west of Moncton. The documents were filed Dec. 27.
McLaughlan could not be reached by CBC News for a comment, but CUPE 1190 laid out the allegations, quoting union member McLaughlan, in a news release last November.
The release said Wetmore and Douthwright drove up to a Department of Transportation roadside work site along Route 112, where McLaughlan and other workers were gathered.
Agriculture
Minister MLA Ross Wetmore, who the union says was present for the
alleged assault by his executive assistant, has said little about it. (Philip Drost/CBC News)
Wetmore "shouted at us, insulted us, using derogatory words and saying road workers were incompetent," McLaughlan is quoted as saying.
The union accused both the Progressive Conservative MLA for Gagetown-Petitcodiac and his assistant of insulting the employees. The release went on to allege that the situation escalated when Douthwright grabbed McLaughlin by the shoulders and shouted an expletive at him.
Union president Brent Wiggins alleged this was not an isolated incident and said in the release that there has been "repeated harassment" of highway workers by Wetmore.
When reached by the CBC, Douthwright replied in an email: "I look forward to telling my story in the proper venue. I have no comment at this time."
Communications director Vicky Deschênes said there would be no comment from the province because "it would be inappropriate to discuss a matter before the courts."
But the alleged assault was addressed in the legislature on three separate occasions late last year.
Robert McKee, the Liberal MLA for Moncton Centre, broached the issue on Nov. 22, 2019, when he outlined the allegations during question period and said, "we would like to give the minister an opportunity to give his side of the story to the house here this morning."
Liberal MLA Lisa Harris questioned Wetmore in the legislature in November, asking if he would step down. (Joe McDonald/CBC)
To which Wetmore replied, in part, "I've been told that this has been forwarded to the RCMP, so right at the time being I'll have no comment."
McKee then asked Wetmore if he would be willing to step down from cabinet until the matter was fully resolved.
Wetmore answered by saying: "This is an HR [human resources] issue that has been dealt with, and I have no intention of commenting any more until this has been concluded with the RCMP."
McKee accused Wetmore of deflecting and then asked Premier Blaine Higgs about removing Wetmore from his position.
Asked
in the legislature to clarify how the matter was dealt with and about
any consequences for Wetmore and Douthwright, Premier Blaine Higgs said
he could not respond because of privacy issues. (CBC)
"I can't speak of the particulars of that situation, but I am under the understanding it has been fully dealt with," said Higgs, who said that because of privacy issues, he wasn't free to discuss what happened.
The next week, questions persisted from the Liberals. Lisa Harris, the Miramichi Bay-Neguac MLA, asked the premier specifically how the matter was dealt with and what consequences there were for Wetmore and Douthwright.
Wetmore responded again that it was a human resources issue, and anyone wanting to know more should file an access to information request with the province.
He then spoke about his success as a minister, a response that surprised Harris.
"Mr. Speaker, it is unreal that the member opposite would switch the conversation when we are talking about a serious allegation."
Liberal MLA Rob McKee asked for specifics surrounding the assault allegations. (CBC)
She again asked if Wetmore would be stepping down.
Higgs replied: "I agree with the member. It is not acceptable. It is not acceptable to have any type of abusive situation, whether it be physical or verbal. We would not tolerate it, and we did not."
He then suggested someone had been disciplined.
"We feel that the disciplinary action was suitable for the situation and that it was done promptly," Higgs said.
But he did not say what disciplinary action was taken.
Higgs said if the RCMP were to investigate, his government would co-operate.
An investigation by the RCMP resulted in a charge of assault against Douthwright. He is scheduled for a first appearance in a Moncton court on Friday.
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