A coalition of federal unions and organizations representing Black workers has filed an international complaint against the Canadian Human Rights Commission.
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“Megaw’s decision protects our democratic and legal systems the very systems that the Premier sought to bypass by pre-emptively invoking the notwithstanding clause before the legal challenge to the legislation could run its course,” said Bert Blundon, President of NUPGE.
The National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), representing 425,000 workers, with 125,000 of them in health care, has been advocating for wise investments and strong national standards. NUPGE and our Components have long opposed health care privatization, because we see its detrimental impacts, including broken promises of improved services and irresponsible management of public funds.