As the province and teachers union try to come to an arrangement on a new contract, another group is waiting in the wings.
Nova Scotia’s civil servants are also trying to work out a new deal with government.
The membership of the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union will be voting on a contract next week.
@NSGEU will stand shoulder to shoulder with every teacher in this province! #nspoli
— Jason MacLean (@JMACL3AN) December 3, 2016
NSGEU president Jason MacLean says dealing with the McNeil government has not been easy.
“It’s not about negotiation, it’s about the agenda of the government and pushing it forward. They don’t want to negotiate.”
MacLean says he’s not worried about the government’s unproclaimed Bill 148, designed to keep negotiation from going to an arbitor.
“It’s already provided for in the Civil Service Collective Bargaining Act that you go on to binding arbitration. The government shouldn’t interfere with that and hopefully they won’t.”
MacLean says he hopes his membership rejects the contract so either they get back to negotiations, a conciliator will step in, or the process will go to binding arbitration.
