{"id":71968,"date":"2016-03-09T22:45:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71968"},"modified":"2016-03-09T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:45:44","slug":"rachel-notley-under-fire-after-ex-union-negotiator-hired-to-bargain-with-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/09\/rachel-notley-under-fire-after-ex-union-negotiator-hired-to-bargain-with-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Notley under fire after ex union negotiator hired to bargain with unions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edmonton Strathcona MLA Rachel Notley (Photo courtesy of Notley’s Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EDMONTON\u2014Premier Rachel Notley is being criticized for hiring a former senior negotiator with Alberta’s largest public-sector union.<\/p>\n

Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt says hiring Kevin Davediuk will be bad news for taxpayers given the NDP’s traditional ties with unions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has hired one of AUPE’s chief negotiators to now negotiate for taxpayers back against AUPE,\u201d Fildebrandt said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is little better than hiring the fox to guard the hen house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Up until Monday, Davediuk worked for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, which represents thousands of workers in a wide variety of government jobs.<\/p>\n

Finance Minister Joe Ceci said Davediuk was picked because he was the best person for the job and has a distinguished career working for unions and for employers.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe certainly has a breadth of experience,\u201d said Ceci.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the best people at the table is in the best interests of all of us, in terms of ensuring we don’t pay more (than needed), \u201c<\/p>\n

Ceci said Davediuk will bow out of some negotiations with the AUPE.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are parts of the negotiations that he’s done in the past that he probably can’t be involved with, but there’s a lot of work we need to do and many union (negotiations) that are coming up over the next few years in particular that need to be settled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Notley’s government faces difficult bargaining with all of its public sector unions, including AUPE, nurses, teachers and doctors and other specialists as low oil prices have seen government revenues plunge.<\/p>\n

The government is predicting this year’s budget will include a $10-billion deficit and the government is facing calls to either freeze or roll back public sector salaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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