Public sector unions unlikely to accept government-mandated wage cuts: SFL

The 25 public sector unions slated to renegotiate their contracts this year are not likely to accept a 3.5 per cent wage cut proposed by the provincial government as a way to save money, according to the head of Saskatchewan’s largest labour organization.
Those unions, which represent about 38,000 civil servants, and other public sector unions, are “prepared to do whatever’s necessary” to resist the government’s attempts to cut back their wages, Saskatchewan Federat