In Saskatchewan, angry union leaders were assessing their options Thursday, a day after the provincial government proposed sweeping changes to labour law, including new essential services legislation.
It appears health care workers could be the first on the battles lines early in 2008 in the fight against the legislation.
Major contracts affecting health care workers, including the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses (SUN) which represents more than 7,000 registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses, are slated to expire March 31.
Union leaders said Thursday they are not pleased by the essential services legislation.
While no one talked specifically about going on strike in defiance of essential services legislation, similar actions have happened in the past, such as in 1999 when SUN continued on strike in defiance of back-to-work legislation introduced by the NDP government in power at the time.
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