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- <text id=91TT2099>
- <title>
- Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Strikes
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- STRIKES
- Catfight In Canada
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Besieged by inflation, recession and unemployment as well as
- his pit-level approval rating (12%), Canadian Prime Minister Brian
- Mulroney is trying to regain ground by attacking "fat cat"
- government employees. Last week 110,000 members of the Public
- Service Alliance of Canada (who typically earn $450 a week)
- countered a Mulroney pay freeze, which wiped out their promised
- raise, with a countrywide strike.
- </p>
- <p> Shipping, airline flights and even auto manufacturing in
- some places were halted. An additional 46,000 PSAC employees
- deemed essential--and barred from striking--"worked to rule"
- in places like customs checkpoints, where backups ranged up to
- 12 hours. Mulroney's newest sally is a bill that Parliament
- debates this week. Besides a no-strike provision for PSAC
- employees, the hardball legislation would effectively ban
- collective bargaining for two years for workers in a far broader
- range of government-related jobs. While the battle rages, the
- Ottawa exchequer is saving $7 million a day in strikers'
- salaries.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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