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Originally Posted by chemgear
What the flying frack does the Alberta Federation of Labour/Union bosses have anything to do with the oil and gas royalty review? Why is he even commenting?
Other than the obvious cash grab for the union, where the hell is the indignation from? And what is this supposed to mean?
“I have reasonably regular meetings with people in the premier’s office. This will be a subject for discussion at the next meeting.”
Wouldn't it be absolutely ridiculous to have executives at CAPP, Encana, Cenovus, or any oil and gas CEO's publicly upset at union negotiations and raises? Do they regularly meet with governments to object at public sector wage talks? Have I not noticed this in the past, what am I missing?
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To me the Unions are no better then the Lobby Groups out there on the other side of the coin. And we know that governments are unduley influenced by Lobby.
The fact that he's talking about discussing Royalties with the government is disturbing as it has nothing to do with the mandate of the union.
Notley is going to have to find the stones to stand up to the Union during the 170 different contract negotiations that are due up during her term in government.
I think that he let slip something that's pretty significant in terms of the unions being in bed with the government.
I think that she needs to let the public know what's being discussed in these meetings, or at the very least have the minutes from the meeting publicly available. Conversely I think it should be the same with lobby groups.
But this sounds suspiciously like over influence by a special interest group (AFL)