SCOOP: OPS loses longtime negotiator-in-chief

And the cost of Bill 124

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First in Observer — BYE-BYE BARGAINER — The Ontario Public Service is losing its chief negotiator smack dab in the middle of rocky contract talks.

After 35 years, MARC RONDEAU — associate deputy minister at the Treasury Board’s Centre for Public Sector Labour Relations and Compensation — is hanging up his civil servant hat on July 31 and …