Strike Ban Faces Senate Foe

A bill granting cabinet unprecedented powers to quash legal strikes hits at “fundamental protection for workers under the Charter,” says Liberal-appointed Senator Hassan Yussuff (Ont.). The former Canadian Labour Congress president did not reply to reporters’ questions on what measures he proposed to prevent passage of Bill C-39: “It’s political.”

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