They gave up defending the bill that bars more than 300 government lawyers from forming their own union, hunkered down like penguins in a blizzard and let the opposition critics wear themselves out
You know when the kids are making a racket in another room and you get used to an ambient level of screams and thumps and then suddenly it goes quiet and you know right away something is wrong?
There is quite a contrast between this week’s still-life tableau on the government benches and the scene last year on a related matter. There was a dire warning: “If we look at the process by which people actually join a union, you really see the opportunities for employers to frustrate that right. Goodbye to the idea of the employer staying out of it. A one-page bill was introduced right in the middle of the group’s application to the Labour Relations Board that quashes the attempt. It says the lawyers will be finally free to unionize, but only on the government’s terms.
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