Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2018-11-23 23:25:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, CCF)",
        "fr": "M. Erin Weir (Regina\u2014Lewvan, FCC)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"5680782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Chair, now that I find myself seated on this side of the House, I feel a sudden compulsion to speak about the middle class and those working hard to join it. I would like to make the point that one of the building blocks for our middle class has been free collective bargaining. Things such as better wages, safer working conditions and paid time off have all come through free collective bargaining. Sometimes arbitration is used as a substitute, but when we talk about the new pioneering gains for middle-class people, they really can only come from free collective bargaining.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680783\" data-originallang=\"en\"> This is a goal that we should share on all sides of this House, and we should be very concerned when the government steps in to take away the ability for free collective bargaining, for a few reasons. One is that it sets a very negative precedent for other areas of the economy. Another is that it sets a negative precedent for Canada Post itself because if the employees and the management know that they should expect that the federal government is going to step in with back-to-work legislation, it really takes away any incentive or any impetus they have to try to negotiate an actual settlement. It actually gives them a bit of an incentive to wait around for the government to bring in this legislation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680784\" data-originallang=\"en\">The <a data-HoCid=\"229214\" href=\"/politicians/patty-hajdu/\" title=\"Patty Hajdu\">Minister of Labour</a> actually recognizes that it is not desirable to have back-to-work legislation. She has described it as a last resort and has suggested that all available options were exhausted before bringing in back-to-work legislation. This seems a bit doubtful to me, given the fact that we do not even have a full-scale strike at Canada Post; we just have rotating strikes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680785\" data-originallang=\"en\">I would actually like to use some of my time to ask the <a data-HoCid=\"229214\" href=\"/politicians/patty-hajdu/\" title=\"Patty Hajdu\">Minister of Labour</a> whether she attempted to negotiate an essential service protocol with the employees of Canada Post to ensure that they would continue to deliver the cheques to low-income people and to charities that she has spoken about and deems to be such an important service. Perhaps I could turn it over to the Minister of Labour to answer that question.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"5680782\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le pr\u00e9sident, maintenant que je me retrouve de ce c\u00f4t\u00e9-ci de la Chambre, je ressens le besoin soudain de parler de la classe moyenne et de ceux qui travaillent fort pour y acc\u00e9der. Je soulignerais que la libre n\u00e9gociation collective a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 l'une des pierres d'assise de la classe moyenne canadienne. Les avantages comme de meilleurs salaires, des conditions de travail plus s\u00fbres et des cong\u00e9s pay\u00e9s sont tous les r\u00e9sultats de la libre n\u00e9gociation collective. On a parfois recours \u00e0 l'arbitrage, mais lorsqu'on pense aux gains novateurs acquis par les gens de la classe moyenne, ils viennent quasiment uniquement de la libre n\u00e9gociation collective.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680783\" data-originallang=\"en\">C'est un objectif que nous devrions tous partager, de tous les c\u00f4t\u00e9s de la Chambre, et tous les d\u00e9put\u00e9s devraient s'inqui\u00e9ter au plus haut point quand le gouvernement intervient pour \u00e9liminer la possibilit\u00e9 de n\u00e9gocier librement la convention collective, et cela, pour plusieurs raisons. L'une d'elles est que cela \u00e9tablit un pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent tr\u00e8s n\u00e9gatif pour d'autres secteurs de l'\u00e9conomie. Ensuite, cela \u00e9tablit aussi un pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent n\u00e9gatif pour Postes Canada, car si la direction et les employ\u00e9s savent que le gouvernement interviendra avec un projet de loi de retour au travail, cela leur enl\u00e8ve toute incitation \u00e0 essayer de n\u00e9gocier une convention collective \u00e9quitable. Cela les motive plut\u00f4t \u00e0 attendre que le gouvernement adopte le projet de loi.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680784\" data-originallang=\"en\">En fait, la <a data-HoCid=\"229214\" href=\"/politicians/patty-hajdu/\" title=\"Patty Hajdu\">ministre de l\u2019Emploi</a> reconna\u00eet qu'une mesure l\u00e9gislative de retour au travail n'est pas souhaitable. Elle en parle comme d'une solution de dernier recours et affirme qu'on a \u00e9puis\u00e9 toutes les options disponibles avant de pr\u00e9senter la mesure. J'en doute un peu, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 qu'il n'y avait qu'une gr\u00e8ve tournante, et non une gr\u00e8ve g\u00e9n\u00e9rale, \u00e0 Postes Canada. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"5680785\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais profiter de mon temps de parole pour demander \u00e0 la <a data-HoCid=\"229214\" href=\"/politicians/patty-hajdu/\" title=\"Patty Hajdu\">ministre de l\u2019Emploi</a> si elle a tent\u00e9 de n\u00e9gocier un protocole sur les services essentiels avec les employ\u00e9s de Postes Canada, pour assurer que les personnes \u00e0 faible revenu et les organismes de bienfaisance re\u00e7oivent leurs ch\u00e8ques, un service dont elle a parl\u00e9 et dont elle semble reconna\u00eetre l'importance. J'aimerais donner \u00e0 la ministre du Travail l'occasion de r\u00e9pondre. </p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2018/11/23/erin-weir-4/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/erin-weir/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4473/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "10395258",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act",
        "fr": "Loi sur la reprise et le maintien des services postaux"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2018/11/23/",
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