The head of the BC Federation of Labour is calling a ruling from Ontario’s top court “a terrible decision.”
That ruling bans RCMP officers from forming a union.
Jim Sinclair points to the fact that other police forces across the country — are unionized.
“You can work out essential services, other police forces aren’t allowed to strike, that’s not the issue. The issue is whether they have a democratic right to join a union and have a mature relationship with their employer, and work out their problems in a mature way.”
Sinclair argues a unionized national police force would also help to weed out problem employees.
“It boggles the mind that a court decision would say that something as basic as your right to join a union, because you work for the national government, you can’t do that… that’s just fundamentally wrong.”
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