‘Contempt for workers’: Union says Alberta’s public service employees victimized by proposed cuts – 2020-11-18

‘Contempt for workers’: Union says Alberta’s public service employees victimized by proposed cuts  [CTV News]     Officials released a statement Friday, after negotiations resumed between the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) and the Alberta Public Service (APS) on Nov. 5.  All the parties were forced to conclude talks because of the pandemic but now the provincial government said it had revised its position. It suggested both groups take an additional three per cent pay cut on top of the original one per cent cut.