...because of the http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2008/11/2 ... updat.html]economic update that th Finance Minister tabled in Parliament today.
The important bits:
Never mind that any raise in this economic climate is a good thing. Never mind that we still have jobs. Never mind that (to the best of my knowledge) my union's never actually gone out on strike. I just know I'm going to hear about how heavy-handed the bosses are, and not just from the obvious union folks...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
The important bits:
- They're holding wage increases to public servants (including MPs and senators, which helps blunt this annoyance) to 2.3 per cent for last year and 1.5 per cent for each of the next three years (we've been negotiating a new contract for slightly over a year, and my union's been asking for roughly double that - not that I ever expected we'd get what the union asked for);
- They're bringing in legislation to prevent us from striking until 2011; and
- The other person at my level in my group is the building's shop steward.
Never mind that any raise in this economic climate is a good thing. Never mind that we still have jobs. Never mind that (to the best of my knowledge) my union's never actually gone out on strike. I just know I'm going to hear about how heavy-handed the bosses are, and not just from the obvious union folks...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012