Canada’s Public Service Union Predator Class – Page 2

The growing need to prune the federal civil service

There are two economies in Canada right now. In one, employment rebounded smartly after the pandemic maelstrom in the spring of 2020, recovering lost jobs by September of that year. In the other, it took until November, 2021 to rebound.

In one, the number of jobs has jumped by 18 per cent between February, 2020, and last month. In the other, the number of employees has risen by a third of that amount, just 6 per cent.

That first economy is the public sector; the second is the one that has to pay for the rapid expansion of the first – the private sector. The most recent data from the Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada underscore the outsized growth in the number of public sector employees, particularly since the onset of the pandemic.

Will this ever happen or will it become yet another perennial unfulfilled wish of Canadian conservative politics like defunding the CBC or right-sizing immigration?

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 15, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

A Quarter of Employed Canadians Now Work For The Government

Canadian employment doesn’t look like it moved much, but under the surface was a giant shift. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the number of jobs virtually unchanged in July, growing 1.7% (+345k jobs) over the past year. As a result, the unemployment rate was also flat at 6.4%, adding 0.9 points from last year. Mostly boring until you dive into the details that show the public sector now accounts for most jobs, overseeing 1 in 4 employees in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 10, 2024August 9, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class, WTF?

TERRAZZANO: Canadians looking for cuts to Ottawa’s bureaucracy

Taxpayers know we’re paying for too many paper pushers in the federal government.

A Leger poll commissioned by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows a plurality of Canadians want to shrink Ottawa’s bureaucracy.

The poll shows 47% of Canadians want to reduce the number of federal bureaucrats. Less than three-in-10 Canadians want to maintain the current number of federal employees.

by Blazingcatfur•August 8, 2024August 8, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Clinging to Power, Canada Style

There is a very real fear and presentiment across the land that the country is disintegrating, Many Canadians now feel, whether implicitly or overtly, that Canada is on the cusp, teetering on the verge of collapse and dissolution. The National Post reports that “A majority of Canadians looking at the country they see around them say everything seems to be broken. Concerned about rising costs, the state of health care, affordable housing, jobs and more, half of us are also angry about the way Canada is being run.” Similarly, an Ipsos poll found that 7 in 10 Canadians agree that “Canada is broken.” As Lee Harding writes in the Western Standard, our rulers “in our own capital city [are] full of self-aggrandizement, handing out contracts to their friends, serving foreign interests, burying us in public debt, and laying heavy taxes on people.” Sounds like it could be the U.S. under Biden and Harris.

h/t Ingenui

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2024August 4, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Jack Mintz: Federal employment bloat costing taxpayers at least $10 billion annually

Buried among the many tables in Statistics Canada’s June employment report are data on public sector employment: federal, provincial and local employees hired by departments, agencies, hospitals and schools, including universities and colleges. As of June, 4.412 million workers were public employees, representing 21.5 per cent of Canada’s workforce. That is an astonishing 972,000 more (28.3 per cent) than in 2014, when 3.439 million Canadians were working for governments. And the numbers don’t include contracted services.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2024July 12, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Organized labour is crushing Canada

Organized labour is crushing Canada and citizens can’t expect help from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC.) Federal Bill C-58 whizzed through parliament with unanimous consent and will be law soon. That bill makes it illegal for private companies in federally regulated sectors to hire replacement workers if there is a strike.

by Blazingcatfur•June 24, 2024June 23, 2024•0•Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

AGAR: Public workers getting wealthier at the expense of the private sector

They couldn’t answer a simple question.

But that didn’t stop them from expressing righteous anger.

“We (they) deserve more,” was the argument in favour of raises demanded by public employees.

“If that’s the case,” I replied, “Why do people in the private sector, struggling to pay for groceries, deserve less?”

by Blazingcatfur•June 11, 2024June 11, 2024•0•Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

‘Divorced from reality’: Why Canadians are losing patience with public servants

Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the government’s return-to-office plan for public servants.

Although public service unions have reacted angrily to the plan, recent polling shows that Canadians generally support government employees spending more time in the office and less time at home.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2024June 3, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

GUNTER: Go to the office and stop complaining

It’s clear federal civil servants have learned nothing – nothing – from the public backlash against their strike last year.

Public-sector union members were stunned by strong public opposition to their outrageous wages demands. I remember getting a chuckle at the expense of a PSAC (Public Service Alliance of Canada) member interviewed by the Ottawa Citizen in the strike’s early days.

The problem for the proles in Canada is that public service unions at all levels of government (including teachers and healthcare) constitute a very large, well organized and effective vote bloc that politicians fear.

All politicians kowtow to union demands. Tax payers foot the unsustainable bill.

If you haven’t read it, this is an excellent essay on the current state of affairs in Ottawa due largely to public servants refusing to return to the office.

Toronto has suffered a similar post covid desolation of its downtown.

Both cities vote reliably Liberal so frankly they are just getting the shitholes they voted for. I say that as a Toronto resident.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2024May 26, 2024•0•Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Jesse Kline: Trudeau’s bloated public service monster turns on him

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a “summer of discontent” — not only because the electorate is fed up with his disastrous economic policies, woke sermonizing and lack of moral leadership, but because his own public-sector employees are fuming over his government’s decision to make them go into the office three days a week.

Listening to the rhetoric being espoused by union leaders, one might get the impression that public servants are being forced to work in sweatshops that aren’t up to fire code, and that the future of democratic governance is at stake.

All in the game. Trudeau is vulnerable and the public service unions are a formidable vote bloc.

Trudeau will rob us to fatten their wallets in the expectation of securing union loyalty.

by Blazingcatfur•May 14, 2024May 14, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Anthony Furey: The Sheldon Keefe Firing Offers a Lesson for the Public Sector

The firing of Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe on May 9 was a perfect case study in why sometimes you just need to shake things up a little bit and let someone go from your operation. If only the public sector operated the same way.

This NHL playoffs season there was, as always, great hope that the Leafs would beat the odds and go the distance. But as round one against Boston went into game seven there was, as always, broken hearts as the Leafs lost in overtime.

by Blazingcatfur•May 12, 2024May 11, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

‘Summer of discontent’ coming over public service in-office order: unions

Canada’s largest public service unions are threatening a “summer of discontent” after Ottawa mandated that federal civil servants return to the office three days a week.

“The Trudeau Liberal government better prepare itself,” Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) president Chris Aylward warned at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday.

by Blazingcatfur•May 9, 2024May 8, 2024•0•Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Federal public servants to return to the office 3 days a week this fall

The federal government will expect public servants back in the office three days a week beginning later this year.

A federal government source who is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter confirmed to Radio-Canada what the French-language newspaper Le Droit first reported Monday.

The source said the policy shift is due to come into effect in September, but added that could change.

by Blazingcatfur•April 30, 2024April 30, 2024•0•Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

How a ballooning public sector is reshaping Canada’s economy

In the final weeks of the 2015 federal election that would sweep Justin Trudeau to power, the Liberal leader penned an open letter to Canada’s federal civil servants promising that if he were elected, government workers would be a lot better off than they were under the last guy. “I have a fundamentally different view than Stephen Harper of our public service,” he wrote. “Where he sees an adversary, I see a partner.”

By the time throngs of cheering, selfie-snapping bureaucrats mobbed Mr. Trudeau days after he was sworn in as prime minister, it was clear the dynamic between the federal government and its hundreds of thousands of employees was about to shift dramatically after years of acrimony and cuts.

The Liberals are creating a ruling class.

by Blazingcatfur•April 14, 2024April 13, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Over 300,000 public sector workers earn more than $100K; OPG CEO tops list

TORONTO — The five top paid public employees in the province are all at Ontario Power Generation, with the CEO earning $1.9 million last year.

The so-called sunshine list was released today, the disclosure of public sector workers who were paid more than $100,000, and the list for 2023 had more than 300,000 names.

h/t DS

by Blazingcatfur•March 29, 2024March 28, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class, WTF?