Until services can be obtained elsewhere, no government employee should be allowed to strike. They are either essential workers,or redundant. The sad fact that gov employees already make 10% more than equivalent private sector workers makes it worse.
Reminds me of the line from the song, “Well I jumped in my pick up and I drove to the fridge and I got myself a beer.” From McLean and McLean….’Long Distance Daddy.’Walk to where? The fridge?
All government workers are essential. Otherwise there is no need for them at all. There has to be a better way to get proper compensation for the job. It also has to be roughly in line with private sector pay. There are a lot of minimum wage private sector workers paying towards the excessive pay and bennies that government employees have.And during a strike, essential workers work.
With our last strike, in some places it was hard to find enough people to be on the lines. Because employment is down that much and the essentials have to be covered.
As for the private sector; that's not my issue, that's on those private people to "negotiate" with their employers for better money if they feel they need it.
are they negotiating for open carry firearms like their murkin counterparts?PSAC agreement sets stage for other unions to push for more — The Globe and Mail
Tentative deal with 120,000 public workers expected to cost Ottawa $1.3-billion a yearapple.news
Revenue Canada still out, the other 120,000 have some kind of a deal.
Yeah it's not fair. IRS agents are armed.are they negotiating for open carry firearms like their murkin counterparts?
IRS Special Agents are armed. That's the difference between an agent and a special agent.Yeah it's not fair. IRS agents are armed.
Yea one is special .IRS Special Agents are armed. That's the difference between an agent and a special agent.
So I hear it's over. Are you and your co-workers generally satisfied with the deal?We went out on Strike 2021 in late fall/early winter, so already people were not happy due to weather being colder during the strike.
We did get Retro, which of course has now dinged most of us this year for our taxes.
We weren't out that long, but by the end of everything, what we agreed to wasn't enough as it was, then a few months later, increases across the board for everything made it seem like we shouldn't have even bothered.
So I hear it's over. Are you and your co-workers generally satisfied with the deal?
I was going through old emails today and found one I'd be interested in your opinion on, or anyone else's who has worked in the public service.
Often when I'd written something at work and wanted to keep a record of it I would send it to my home computer. Nothing of course was of the restricted or classified nature. Just samples of stuff I'd written and wanted to keep for posterity I suppose.
And the following was a response to a PER I got one year from a guy who had been in our department for maybe 6 or 7 years or so. He had begun as a 4th class and applied himself in the trade earning 3rd class accreditation, then 2nd class, and finally became a 1st class tradesman. Even tho he had the ticket there were no openings for a first class at the time so he held his job in a 2nd class position with a 1st class ticket. So eventually he became my boss when I was once his when he first started with us. So now I'm his assistant.
I don't know if you're familiar with PERs, maybe your branch of gubmint uses a different acronym, but I think these assessments are ubiquitous to all departments so senior management can gauge effectiveness or whatever the fuck it is they're supposed to do. In DND they were an annual annoyance to anyone charged with the task of rendering them for every head in their charge. But towards the end when I got out maybe 5 years ago now, they were getting all stupid with them with new rules saying they had to be done 3? or was it 4 times a year?! A monumental waste of time imo like pretty much most of what the bureaucracy does.
Anyway my boss gives me this glowing Personnel Evaluation Report and this was my reply to it:
"I am pleased to accept this generous assessment of my work performance from Mr. D, even as it raises the bar for me and I hope I will continue to live up to the qualitative standard it represents.
I normally don't make comments on my PER other than to say "no comment", as I have always regarded this annual process to be a useless waste of time as a tool to supposedly benefit our employer, the taxpayer.
I think it would be far more useful to the system at large if employees were to assess their immediate supervisors rather than the other way around.
To that end and for the record Mr D would receive an equally high assessment from me as he has proven himself to be fully capable in all aspects of the CHP shift operator's supervisory position."
As you can imagine, we had an awesome work unit, very much like family.
It's amazing how quickly bad management can make it all go to hell, though.
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thanks for your detailed reply, Serryah
I think if the people ever want to straighten out/streamline their government bodies to work more efficiently for them, then yeah, a lot of the dead wood needs to be cut out. Administrations have grown too top-heavy in my opinion, and having the subordinates evaluate their supervisors would give a better idea of who is more the hindrance to productivity, and maybe even who is taking unfair advantage of their positions in other ways, nest feathering or empire building as the case may be.
One thing I didn't notice in 4 decades of various governments, libs, cons, was any real change whatsoever in how the government operated. I swear even if the ndp had formed a government there would have been very little change at the working end of things.
If the people in this country want real government change then they're going to have to insist on the unelected office holders getting seriously shaken up. Again ya do that by evaluating from the bottom up, not the top down.