The province’s education minister may be taking a few pages out of the NDP plan for sick leave and pensions for early childhood educators.
A group of about two dozen ECEs took to the steps of Confederation Building yesterday with three demands. They want sick leave, pensions, and wage increases.
Paul Dinn spent about a half hour speaking to group, doubling down on PC commitments for pensions and sick leave that were made during the election campaign, and promoting the new steering committee they hope to have set up not long after the budget.
Both the PCs and NDP had plans for sick leave and benefits for ECEs in their election platforms.
NDP Leader Jim Dinn and Education Minister Paul Dinn
Dinn is interested in having a look at what the NDP plan would have entailed.
“I’m actually probably going to reach out to my brother (NDP leader Jim Dinn) today because he had a four-year implementation plan they were talking about for pensions and sick leave. I’d like to get that information as well just to see, because I’d certainly like to expedite it more than four years; four years is a long time.”
Jim Dinn says he is open to that conversation.
He says they will share their information. However, he states the NDP knew how they were going to pay for their promise, while he doesn’t know how the PCs would pay for it.
