An emergency recall for Monday, June 27 will bring the Saskatchewan Legislature back into session and put an end to a strike by that province’s crop insurance workers.
Premier Brad Wall told the media at the legislature in Regina, June 23 that he would put an end to the labour dispute over a contract that expired two years ago.
Wall took umbrage at the Saskatchewan Government Employees’ Union’s choice of timing to withdraw its labour from the province’s crop insurance system earlier this week.
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He said recent flooding and millions of unseeded acres that would be claimed through crop insurance programs in the province were being used as bargaining chips in the process to get an agreement with the government run crop insurance corporation and he objected to that action.
Crop insurance deadlines have been extended, however without staff to receive producer calls and the completed forms the process of adjusting can’t begin.
The union says the province failed to negotiate a settlement over the past two years and knew there was a risk that work would be disrupted during the spring crop rush. Record wet weather has created more issues this season due to the large number of claims and the level of need by farmers for the programs.
