Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2009-12-09 14:15:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Ms. Chris Charlton (Hamilton Mountain, NDP)",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1767435\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, as members are no doubt aware, 420 workers at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the War Museum have been on strike since September 21. That is 80 long days; 80 days during which the union has worked tirelessly to achieve a fair and just collective agreement; 80 days during which management has stonewalled and piled up budget savings on the backs of its workers.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767436\" data-originallang=\"en\">These employees are the only federal museum workers in Ottawa-Gatineau with no job security whatsoever and no recognition of their years of service in a number of critical areas, including career advancement. Their salaries are the lowest among all federal museum workers in the national capital region.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767437\" data-originallang=\"en\">This is a female-dominated workplace. I would like to remind members of this House that women working in precarious or part-time employment are consistently at high risk of poverty, especially women with children.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767438\" data-originallang=\"en\">This impasse is not going to end on its own. The <a data-HoCid=\"128634\" href=\"/politicians/jim-abbott/\" title=\"Jim Abbott\">Minister of Labour</a> has to act and she has to act now. The 420 of the country's best public servants deserve nothing less.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1767435\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les d\u00e9put\u00e9s ne sont pas sans savoir que 420 employ\u00e9s du Mus\u00e9e canadien des civilisations et du Mus\u00e9e canadien de la guerre sont en gr\u00e8ve depuis le 21 septembre, soit depuis 80 longs jours; 80 jours durant lesquels le syndicat a tent\u00e9 sans rel\u00e2che de parvenir \u00e0 une convention collective juste et \u00e9quitable; 80 jours durant lesquels la direction a fait la sourde oreille et r\u00e9alis\u00e9 des \u00e9conomies sur le dos de ses travailleurs.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767436\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ces travailleurs sont les seuls employ\u00e9s des mus\u00e9es f\u00e9d\u00e9raux de la r\u00e9gion d'Ottawa-Gatineau sans s\u00e9curit\u00e9 d'emploi et dont les ann\u00e9es de service ne sont pas reconnues dans un certain nombre de domaines cruciaux, dont l'avancement professionnel. Ils touchent les salaires les moins \u00e9lev\u00e9s de tous les employ\u00e9s des mus\u00e9es f\u00e9d\u00e9raux de la r\u00e9gion de la capitale nationale.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767437\" data-originallang=\"en\">Il s'agit d'un milieu de travail \u00e0 pr\u00e9dominance f\u00e9minine. J'aimerais rappeler aux d\u00e9put\u00e9s que les femmes qui occupent un emploi pr\u00e9caire ou \u00e0 temps partiel risquent constamment de se retrouver dans la pauvret\u00e9, particuli\u00e8rement celles qui ont des enfants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1767438\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'impasse dans laquelle se trouvent les employ\u00e9s ne va pas se r\u00e9gler d'elle-m\u00eame. La <a data-HoCid=\"128634\" href=\"/politicians/jim-abbott/\" title=\"Jim Abbott\">ministre du Travail</a> doit intervenir et elle doit le faire maintenant. Les 420 meilleurs fonctionnaires de notre pays ne m\u00e9ritent rien de moins.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2009/12/9/chris-charlton-1/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/chris-charlton/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/372/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "3010998",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Statements by Members",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Museums Labour Dispute",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2009/12/9/",
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