NAPE is shaking its head over how government could even consider what it calls “highway robbery”—a P3 model for laying down asphalt on our roads.
Workers demonstrated outside Confederation Building just before the work day this morning, saying costs will go up and services will go down.
Government is considering a public-private partnership for an expansion of the TCH in two sections: outside Whitbourne and Grand Falls-Windsor.
NAPE President Jerry Earle says good jobs will be lost while corporations line their pockets.
First it was a steady stream of consultants, then buildings, then travel health care workers, then vaccine clinics and air ambulances—now it’s our highways says the union.
Earle says it kicks the financial can down the road. He finds it unimaginable that a private company will end up owning 65 km of our TCH.