TVO Today
Written by Jenn Jefferys
Feb 28, 2024
“I’m happy to watch it burn.”
That’s how Erin Ariss recently described the long-awaited death of Bill 124, which she and her colleagues at the Ontario Nurses’ Association had fought tooth and nail since 2019.
From day one, the Protecting a Sustainable Public Sector for Future Generations Act was deeply unpopular with essentially everyone outside the premier’s political orbit. Critics called this thinly veiled wage-restraint legislation, as it capped salary increases for workers in the broader public sector at 1 per cent a year for three years.