You can’t really understand the UCP attack on unions unless you look at how all their legislation fits together.
1) Bill 1, already challenged by the AUPE, allows massive penalties for protests on public streets and sidewalks. I thought AUPE’s challenge was premature but 1/

Bill 32’s picketing restrictions make it unlawful to “impede”. Newsflash: all picket lines are an impediment - that’s the point. The relationship to Bill 1 is that its sidewalk fines didn’t apply if you were lawfully on a picket line. That assurance is gone with bill 32 ... 2/

The final knock on unions is the new dual dues regime that requires members to opt in to dues being used for “political activities” (ie. anything the UCP says they dislike in regulation). This limit on unions’ political speech and associational power was done at the same time 3/

as the UCP opened the barn doors to a flood of new corporate-funded third party political advertisers who can dump money into referendums and municipal campaigns with abandon, unopposed, (because unions won’t have the money to compete post-Bill 32). It’s Kenney’s wet dream. Fin/

As some have noted I was a little careless by saying “the final knock on unions” - because there’s much more in Bill 32 that’s going to hurt unions and workers than I briefly itemized above. Here’s just one of many examples https://twitter.com/djclimenhaga/status/1280870560973459456?s=21 https://twitter.com/djclimenhaga/status/1280870560973459456