Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Lett | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2021
Opinion
Deep within the folds of the 2021-22 provincial budget, Premier Brian Pallister has hidden a rather embarrassing secret.
Deep within the folds of the 2021-22 provincial budget, Premier Brian Pallister has hidden a rather embarrassing secret.
According to documents tabled Wednesday, the Pallister government will reap a record-setting $480-million cash windfall from Manitoba Hydro.
As the province tries to recover from the economic impacts of a deadly pandemic, one could argue that s pretty good news.
However, the potentially embarrassing aspect of the windfall is it was triggered by the construction of the Keeyask generating station and Bipole III two megaprojects Pallister hates with a passion.
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The decision this week by 2,300 Manitoba Hydro workers to go on strike is hardly surprising.
The decision this week by 2,300 Manitoba Hydro workers to go on strike is hardly surprising.
Given the profuse serving of tough love that has been dished out over the last few years, it would have been shocking if they had stayed on the job.
The workers who maintain Hydro’s power transmission and distribution systems have been without a contract since 2018. Last year, they had to absorb three unpaid days off after the Progressive Conservative government demanded the Crown corporation trim operating costs.
On the heels of all that, the offer presented to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2034 would seem even to skeptics of the collective bargaining approach to be almost punitive.