Ontario government engineers start work-to-rule campaign in contract dispute

More than 600 professional engineers and land surveyors who work for the Ontario government have started a work-to-rule campaign and warn that their job action could affect the province’s ability to make progress on key infrastructure projects.Their bargaining association says members’ earning have fallen so far behind that they sometimes earn half of what people in similar positions at municipalities make.Nihar Bhatt, president of Professional Engineers Government of Ontario, says his members want to see a “significant” increase in pay, though he did not give specific percentages.