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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Do they remember what the negative impacts were of that bill?
The biggest gripe I recall was surrounding WCB for anyone working on a farm when previously there had been no requirement for family members(or it may have been any farm workers in general but I’m honestly not sure) to be covered by insurance. The UCP modified this so that farmers could opt to use a private insurer instead.
Another big complaint was the fact that farm workers had the right to Unionize if they chose to. Despite legislation at the time that made it “easier” for workers to join a Union this lead to a grand total of 0 (ZERO) farms being organized in the time that they had that right(UCP took it away) so I’m not sure I understand why it was such an issue.
The only other complaint I can recall was the requirement that farm workers operating heavy farming equipment on highways would be required to have the appropriate licensing, the same as anyone else who would operate heavy equipment on a highway. I don’t recall this being repealed by the UCP but perhaps someone else would know.
Farmers play a crucial role in our economy and should be assisted wherever reasonably possible but I don’t think that these changes(aside from the WCB only rule, which is an easy fix if it truly was more expensive than private coverage) were terribly unreasonable or should justify never voting for a party again. There may be more changes that I’m not remembering, these are just the ones I remember being brought up in the media and hearing from farmers.
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The details of the bill are really irrelevant, and they did amend it a couple of times fix some of the errors. But farmers do not like being told what to do and how to do it, especially by city folks and politicians.