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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Maybe not rural communities (ie small towns) but the rural community (farms etc) were not happy with some of the changes to labor laws/workers comp changes IIRC.
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A lot of people were not happy about being asked to wear masks during a pandemic. Just because someone isn’t happy about something doesn’t mean they’re right. Wastedyouth labelling what the NDP did as harmful is a joke and Wastedyouth should probably acknowledge that their statement is at best an exaggeration regardless of what their motivation for making such a statement was.
The NDP made it so farm workers needed the same license requirements to operate heavy equipment as anyone else in the province.
They also made it so that farm workers had to be covered by WCB, the same as any other business.
They also gave farm workers the right to unionize, just like almost any other employee in any other industry. In the time that they had this right before the UCP took it away a whopping ZERO farms unionized.
I’m not a farmer so I can’t pretend to know that I completely understand why they oppose these types of things but if there are any on here who would like to explain why there was so much opposition to things like giving their workers the right to refuse unsafe work I’d be happy listen, and I’m sure others would like to hear their side of it as well.