City blasts cops’ sick-in. “They will pay for this!”
In Canada, the City of Montreal will bill Montreal’s police union for the overtime officers worked Saturday to replace 100 colleagues who simultaneously called in sick to protest pension reforms.
Mayor Denis Coderre called the protest action “irresponsible” and said the officers involved would lose a sick day as a result. “You don’t play with the security of Montrealers,” Coderre told reporters.
It’s not clear how much the pressure tactic cost in overtime, but Coderre insisted that taxpayers will not foot the bill. “For the supplementary work, it’s not the citizens who will pay for it. It will be the union,” he said. A demonstration outside Montreal’s city hall on Friday saw police and firefighters throw their service shirts on the building’s steps. Police officers and other municipal workers have also been wearing casual pants and red baseball hats as a symbol of protest against the so-called pension reforms.
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