Mayor claims threats from police union

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Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum says a three-day workweek pilot program for police is not working out.

Photograph by: Vincenzo D'Alto , The Gazette

Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum said he was personally threatened by the head of Montreal?s police union because the city has refused to allow officers to work a three-day workweek.

Applebaum produced an email sent from Yves Francoeur?s head of communications Thursday to his press aide stating ?tell the mayor it?s not the civil servants who will have trouble with us on their back, it?s the mayor.?

Stop the cancellation of the three-day workweek and Francoeur will thank the mayor publicly and ?the episode will be closed? the email states.

Applebaum said he also spoke to Francoeur Friday morning and the head of the police brotherhood told him he had till 6 p.m. to change course on the program or he would be personally attacked, without specifying what form those attacks would take.

Applebaum said the city had tried the three-day workweek as a pilot program, but in evaluations, 30 out of 33 police commanders recommended it be scrapped as it was not working. Montreal police chief Marc Parent and the head of human resources for the city concurred. If the police want to dispute the issue, they have the right, Applebaum said, saying he understood they have families and difficult jobs. But it has to be done through proper channels and not by threatening the mayor of a metropolis.

?I remain convinced Montreal taxpayers, most of whom work five-day weeks, will back me on this,? he said.

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