When the threat of an industrial inquiry didn’t send the two sides scurrying back to the negotiating table, Danny Williams called the union and Vale Inco to his office on Friday in another effort to settle the 15 month old strike.
Industrial inquiries typically don’t work in labour disputes of this type that must be settled ultimately by an agreement.
Williams – who has been known to storm out of negotiations and engage in petty, vicious, personal attacks during negotiations or other disputes – claimed straight-facedly that he wanted “to try to be the voice of reason” with the two sides.
The provincial government has seen its mineral royalties plummet during the strike.
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