TORONTO - The president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says Finance Minister Dwight Duncan's wage freeze plan is unfair.
Smokey Thomas also says the plan doesn't protect the public services Ontarians need or strengthens the economy.
Thomas and other labour leaders met with Duncan yesterday in Toronto to discuss deficit reduction plans.
The government plan is intended to freeze public sector salaries for two years.
Thomas says that's not fair to public employees who did nothing to create the economic crisis that caused the provincial deficit.
And, he says cutting public sector wages will harm the economic recovery at a critical time.
Ontario spends more than $50-billion a year on salaries and compensation, about 55 per cent of total program expenditures.
