VANCOUVER -- Organized labour is poised to rock the boat in B.C. in the coming weeks, but at least one expert on politics says Premier Christy Clark could take advantage of it.
The B.C. Government Employees Union is raising the temperature today by starting an overtime ban for the province's 25,000 public servants.
And tomorrow more than 1,500 workers with ICBC are poised to strike at 55 different locations.
Other unions are either in negotiations or are taking strike votes in the coming weeks.
A political science professor says labour troubles might be a silver lining for the Clark government.
Hamish Telford of the University of the Fraser Valley says labour strife would make the opposition New Democrats uncomfortable.
He says the NDP would have to be wary of being too sympathetic to their traditional union allies as the Liberals could portray them as being fiscally reckless.
Telford also says the Liberals could capitalize on labour unrest by showing British Columbians they're tough on public sector unions.
