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Fifteen months into Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tenure, union insiders, labour activists and lobbyists say that the Prime Minister’s Office displays a stark lack of interest in worker issues, Vanmala Subramaniam reports. Mr. Carney’s inner circle rarely takes meetings with unions and does not sufficiently involve labour voices in consultations on important policy issues, according to 14 sources The Globe spoke to with first-hand knowledge of how the Prime Minister, his office and certain ministries have been engaging with unions over the past 15 months. When it comes to labour relations, the tone coming out of the PMO is one of indifference, say the sources, who include senior leaders in both public sector and private sector unions, and labour policy experts who have been involved in consultations on workers’ issues both in the Carney government and under his predecessor Justin Trudeau. Many of the sources said they believe the Prime Minister views unions as a footnote in the overall management of the country, and that his government prefers to move quickly rather than bring more voices to the table. The Globe is not identifying the sources so they could speak freely on their relationship with government. There have been a series of concrete actions that have chafed the labour community.