Legislation restores health care workers' collective bargaining rights

10 months after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the actions of the Gordon Campbell B.C. goverment violated workers constitutional rights - legislation has been tabled in the B.C. legislature to start to repair the damage done to thousands of workers in that province. The cost to B.C. taxpayers: between 75 and 100 million dollars.

How much are the heavy-handed and undemocratic actions of the Sask. Party Brad Wall conservatives going to cost Saskatchewan taxpayers?

"Legislation restores health care workers' collective bargaining rights

BC Liberals table bill to bring provincial laws into compliance with last June's Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down key provisions of Bill 29

April 14, 2008

More than six years after imposing a law that rewrote collective agreements, the BC Liberals have tabled a bill to implement last year’s historic Supreme Court of Canada ruling that struck down key provisions of Bill 29 – the Health and Social Services Delivery Improvement Act, as unconstitutional." (Read more....)

See the Canadian Press coverage of the story here.