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<text id=91TT2099>
<title>
Sep. 23, 1991: Business Notes:Strikes
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 23, 1991 Lost Tribes, Lost Knowledge
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 45
Business Notes
STRIKES
Catfight In Canada
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<p> Besieged by inflation, recession and unemployment as well as
his pit-level approval rating (12%), Canadian Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney is trying to regain ground by attacking "fat cat"
government employees. Last week 110,000 members of the Public
Service Alliance of Canada (who typically earn $450 a week)
countered a Mulroney pay freeze, which wiped out their promised
raise, with a countrywide strike.
</p>
<p> Shipping, airline flights and even auto manufacturing in
some places were halted. An additional 46,000 PSAC employees
deemed essential--and barred from striking--"worked to rule"
in places like customs checkpoints, where backups ranged up to
12 hours. Mulroney's newest sally is a bill that Parliament
debates this week. Besides a no-strike provision for PSAC
employees, the hardball legislation would effectively ban
collective bargaining for two years for workers in a far broader
range of government-related jobs. While the battle rages, the
Ottawa exchequer is saving $7 million a day in strikers'
salaries.
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