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Article: The Romanov model: Saskatchewan trade unions confront the NDP.(Saskatchewan, Canada New Democratic Party)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- January 1, 1999
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For the Saskatchewan trade-union movement, the struggle over labour-law reform with Roy Romanow's NDP government has been turbulent and frustrating. A telling illustration of the government's attitude is the "test of time," excuse used to justify their heeldragging. Asked in 1993 why he was taking so long to come out with the new labour legislation and offering so little, then-Labour Minister Ned Shillington answered that any new legislation had to "stand the test of time", i.e., be so innocuous that it would never be repealed by a future government of a different political stripe. Several years later, asked why the NDP government had not yet introduced ...