NDP VOTE AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY

May 14, 2008

Putting public safety first, your Saskatchewan Party MLAs voted unanimously today in favour of essential services legislation that balances public safety with the right to strike.

Opposition MLAs voted against the legislation.

Are the NDP playing politics with people's lives?

The Public Service Essential Services Act requires the employer and the union to negotiate which workers are essential 90 days before the expiration of a contract.  You will no longer have to worry about being stranded in a blizzard because snowplow operators are on strike.

The legislation balancing public safety and the right to strike received third and final reading in the legislative assembly Thursday.  In a standing vote, there was a chorus of yeas from your Saskatchewan MLAs.   When the NDP stood, a cacophony of no's filled the air. 

Politics, not public safety, seem to the opposition's top priority.