I am not too hopeful about the whole "Back to work" legislation in October idea either. This was in the article I posted earlier:RD.NewDelhi said:i guess oct -- :/
Back to work legislation
The government can't lock its employees out under the Public Service Labour Relations Act, Mr. Edwards said. The trade-off is that unions would have to sign essential service agreements with the government before entering into a legal strike position.
Yet, while the Harper government has shown in the past that it is not averse to passing back-to-work legislation, if it were going to pass such legislation it would have already done so, said Mr. Smith.
“Why would they have allowed all the time to pass and all the inconvenience that seems to be growing as these workers extend their strike?” he said.
It isn't something they would do frivolously, said Mr. Smith.
He said if the government were to enact back-to-work legislation, it would make for an unusual situation.