If striking bureaucrats get their pay raises, inflation might never end
When 155,000 federal government workers walked off the job this week, they tested more than the resolve of the government and the patience of Canadian taxpayers. They also tested Newton’s third law, which states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
There is no question that the cost of living has been rising and that people need relief. But that does not come from simply giving everyone more money.
Very shortly the Trudeau government and Canada’s public service unions, a critical component of the Liberal Party’s electoral success, will rub shit in your face and tell you to like it.
They will get virtually all they ask for. Trudeau is in need of their support and like the CBC the unions were never non-partisan.
“Public servants believe they should be able to work from home because going to work is risking getting sick.”
Does anyone have some thoughts on this remark? pic.twitter.com/rNqshS9GgC
— Steven_Tyler (@StevenT65674368) April 20, 2023
Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh all crave the labour vote. Here’s why the federal strike complicates that
OTTAWA—When NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh turned up in front of Parliament Hill Wednesday to join thousands of striking federal workers, the picket line all but turned into a party line.
After all, Singh has noted repeatedly in recent days, his party has always stood on the side of unions.
The Public Service is not the “labour vote”. Labour in Canada is mostly non-unionized.
The unionization rate for private sector employees fell from 19.0% in 1997 to 13.8% in 2021. In contrast, 74.1% of public sector employees were union members in 2021, 4.3 percentage points higher than in 1997.
