Interim NDP Leader Don Davies tells Power & Politics that his party needs to ‘reconnect and rebuild’ its relationship with the working class.
NDP leadership race a chance to build ‘strong, progressive option’: Davies
NDP leadership race a chance to build ‘strong, progressive option’: Davies
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The NDP urged Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to commit to not intervening in a future strike by invoking Section 107 of the Labour Code. Hajdu invoked that statute last summer to force striking Air Canada flight attendants back to work and order binding arbitration. The union ignored the order and a negotiated agreement was ultimately reached with the airline. “This clear contempt for workers’ fundamental rights is unacceptable and must not be repeated,” NDP MPs Don Davies and Leah Gazan wrote in a letter to Hajdu.
NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies introduced Bill C-284, legislation designed to close a loophole in the Canada Labour Code that employers have begun to exploit to undermine the ban on scabs. If passed, it would revise the Code to clarify that the prohibition on firms utilizing employees from outside the struck workplace during a strike or lockout includes managers.
NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies said Canada’s biggest housing issue isn’t supply, but rather affordability. And big corporate investors like real estate investment trusts or REITs are only making matters worse. “There’s not a shortage of the kinds of product that wealthy people or investors may want,” he said in an interview on Wednesday.