That's what the charter says. Government cannot discriminate against employment in the private sector based on union affiliation. I get a great deal of solace from reading that, and hopefully it will one day be true. For years I've been a supporter of the City of Toronto fair wage policy, which calls for open competition with all wages over $30 an hour, and whatever else, without a race to the bottom.
The organized sector seems to want to destroy the fair wage policy by not having a level playing field and not letting anybody else come to play. I do not want to get rid of the labour movement. They give us incentive. If they get better than us, it's competition in how you perform the work. It's creating better mousetraps. They can do it. We can do it.