PSAC workers strike for better wages, remote work
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- Tens of thousands of federal public servants represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) went on strike Wednesday. PSAC president Chris Aylward wants remote work to be included in the next contract, but Treasury Board president Mona Fortier pushes back, saying such arrangements are up to managerial discretion.
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How about the Federal MPs scale back their 20% raises before asking the civil servants be reasonable
Indeed and nothing wrong sending billions of our hard earned dollars to you know where..
@@mymanlovesme1 yeah not like 5 billion was sent to ukraine or anything...
@@tygawa12 🤣🤣 facts
That's a totally different topic. Try to stay focussed.
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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They are BOTH unreasonable. Would you agree to a raise that everybody can afford to give including the private sector.
Hey Mona, you ignored the individual departments and their decision because you caved to the City of Ottawa lobbying. You ignored the data. You are costing Canadians hundreds of thousands of dollars that had been saved by the departments and making the decision that works best for their operations.
Rescind the Hybrid work mandate, and let the departments decide the best format for their operations!
I've seen the results of the survey they do, they are really ignoring what people are telling them..
@Carly Ar this is the first comment I see mentioning the lobbying that forced going back to the office. I appreciate you!!!
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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@@fabricadecuero4944 I am really stand that there hasn’t been any attention given to this. I expect that eventually the media would cover it, but apparently it’s been ignored or the ATIs have been suppressed.
Why is she smiling? She should resign as she wasn't able to prevent the strike?
It's the meds and Pinot mixture that keeps Karen smiling
She's smiling because now the contractors can take over and do those jobs remotely. Your picket line is useless against Virtual Scab Labor. My buddy is a retired chartered accountant. He's going to snag one of those contracts and help file people's taxes. Support will only go up for people like him as the work resumes and people get their tax returns. You just fell for the classic blunder. Never give up your job security when debt is on the line.
These negotiations should be public since the "public" taxpayer is paying for all of it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Increasing these federal workers, especially those who are doing unskilled useless jobs, is basically saying increase taxes of hardworking Canadians so they can work from home, with good pay, good benefits, and good pension
Precisely.
@@douglaszimmerman1768 Exactly. The underdog here is not the union members, it is the Canadian public. those of us NOT working for the gov't had to watch video after picture after video of gov't workers baking cookies and building pools or decks while "working" from home during Covid. To turn this into a 'right' rather than a 'privelege', God help us. It will take even longer for the Canadian public to receive the services they need and pay for.
@@douglaszimmerman1768 And they also run a side business from home as I also know of.
Typical, Mona answers like a politician . REMOTE WORK is being denied to me even though I have several doctor notes from 3 doctors supporting my remote work due to several disability illnesses. My position is one that can be competed at home and I have a 2 hr commute, so leaving it managers hands is not an option that works, remote work needs to be in our contact. I WISH REASONABLE WAS THE SAME FOR PUBLIC WORKERS AS IT IS FOR POLATICIANS!!!!
Unless your keystrokes are being monitored full time .....forget it.
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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@@taxicamel keystrokes? I'm not a data entry Clerk! I have a job to do and I do it. And you have no idea what my job entails. It can't be measured by keystrokes
Don’t worry veterans are used to be screwed by our government.
Sour grapes 🍇
@@steverichard2786 slave
Naw they found a solution for that, they offer you assisted suiside.
Dont be in a wheel chair either, one veteran has been waiting for 5 year to get a ramp to her home.
and don't worry about the genuinely disabled making less than 15k a year and prostituting themselves because they can't afford food on the table. nothing to see here. surely bringing in more non white immigrants will fix this....o wait...this is psychotic and evil
Veterans of living off tax payers for 30 years and then collecting a pension for 40 ?
If the government wants workers making 40-60K to take a rollback in their wages, then at minimum, those making $100 and plus should take the lead by taking an equal cut relative to their wage.
Yea I absolutely agre3
Those who are making $100k + also have more responsibilities. Most of these government jobs are mundane unskilled labour. I certainly want the people treating my health to be paid fairly. The same can be said about teachers who are teaching our kids. Most of these federal workers are inefficient and doing unskilled jobs which doesn't even justify making $60k
@@douglaszimmerman1768 agree but at least you are financially secure
@@knowledgepedia1995 I'm a taxpayer. I ABSOLUTELY do not want my tax dollars going into paying these public servants more + work from home. They save on transportation already and asking for a pay raise on top of that is too much for the tax payer. I rather have the money they demand to go towards health care, education, construction projects, science & research, and renewable green energy.
What about all the people making over $100,000, $120,000, ...$140,00?
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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Leave them on strike. They will get back to work once the union runs out of money to pay them to picket.
If you've ever dealt with the CRA, you know how unhelpful and useless they are. They do not deserve a 22% pay raise when they already make more money than those in similar positions in the private sector.
*4.5 percent pay raise. The one they have been promised for the past 3 years while all Exec pay was raised this year.
That just means private sectors is not paying their workers enough.
Why work in the private sector then if wages are so bad there?
@@jeBATMANnna 4 percent of what? Still huge i think
@@mikem2253 Exactly. We should ALL work for the government and ALL make as much money as we want and then we'll ALL be millionaires and everyone will be happy! We'll pay for it with magic Liberal dollars from the sky - or may our daddy will give us the money that he got from his daddy, like Trudy! I'm sure it'll all work out if we just let the government control it!
I’ll take one of their jobs and actually do the work!
So then apply
@@minusblindfold9851 Do you think it is that easy? In fact, he probably won't get the job because he'll make the rest of them look bad.
I have a friend who is on strike. The big issue on working from home is that all the equipment in the office that used to be there is gone. She told me their office had NO desks, computers, chairs or any supplies. They have to bring everything and there are no storage lockers anymore to leave belongings in. Like WTF does management expect people to do in this case? Sit on the floor and "collaborate" with each other?!
Perhaps this is what the gov't wanted? Why else would they have gotten rid of everything for the "2 weeks to flatten the curve"? Ridiculous. Most people are not as productive at home. It takes a super ethical and disciplined person to be as efficient (in their work) at home as in an office. So many things became so much harder and longer to get done during Covid because people were working from home with their bunny slippers, super long coffee breaks and lunch breaks......
@@AM-eq2ir and the whack breaks. You can't forget about the whack breaks
Yeah your friend lied to you
@@djgrom9542 Yes. It was ridiculous. We got to watch all that they did at home during "work" hours on their social media accounts, and now they want us to support them? Meantime I have friends who are business owners hanging on by the skin of their teeth to keep their businesses afloat and their employees employed because of all of the shut downs. Now that's not to say they were all unethical in their work at home practises, but many of them were. Some of them just returned to work a few months ago. Good Lord.
The problem if u believed into your friend….
As a Canadian, I wish other Canadians grew a pair and revolted against greedy corporations that elevate the cost of living. The government clearly wont do it. Capitalism has run its course and is now eating away at its host. All Monopoly games end the same way.
Of course government won’t do it. They’re doing it as well! Don’t matter which party you vote for it’s 100% a money game.
Be the change you are the resistance
Is Socialism better?
@@fkb247 no but the adult children will say it's great. they don't understand its unsustainable and someone still has to work
A quote by Sir Winston Churchill:
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
She doesn't even answer his question about why it's such a big deal to have remote work put into the collective agreement.
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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I don’t know why telework is even a sticking point. If the government gave the whole farm on that one the union could come down a lot farther on wages and we could unload some federal buildings.
A little thing known as human nature, if you truly believe that productivity has not suffered you are living a delusion.
Because employers need to hold there employees accountable for their quality of work and performance. Something that can’t effectively be achieved without supervision. Humans are humans.. they’ll blast out the minimum level of work they need to to do to keep there job (quiet quitting) and then do wtv they want for the rest of their day during what is supposed to be ‘working hours.’
It’s the public sector. Working tax paying Canadians pay these salaries, pensions, and interest in debt all of this with THEIR TIME. Expecting accountability from the government and its workers should be the norm.
@@Ryan-nm2si Well, thats a blatant lie. You sound like you enjoy micromanagement. If you are effective at performance management, you can have equal or better performance away from the office once you factor in the removal of traffic time wasted and time wasted socializing. There are courses on this- its not hard.
@Ryan-nm2si it most certainly can be done in wfh settings recording calls have a quality assurance department in office if you need
See how long the processing is back up during the telework time (covid). Unless it's a day or two a week, I don't believe PS is any efficient when telework
Been working from home since 2020 with better service and better mental health for us. Treasury Board just ignored all the surveys they sent out. Survey said telework was wanted by a majority. Employees can work just as efficiently from home and also be able to utilize the savings of time with their families. No raise in 3 years....working from home we are able to use those monies for food!! TREASURY BOARD - START LISTENING TO YOUR PEOPLE WHIO DO THE JOB - not sit in a nice big office in Ottawa thinking you know what is best for us. We told you - you ignored the survey results.
Better service for who? The public? I think not. Some might work well from home, but many also abused the privilege. Who were the surveys sent to, members of the union or the public they service? The treasury board as well as the government employees should be working for Canadians. My empathy goes to the business owners holding on by the skin of their teeth to keep their businesses a float, even still, and their employees employed due to all of the interruptions with shut downs these past 3 years. These business owners lost wages these past 3 years with no job security whatsoever and their mental health has been to hell and back.
So the government cannot "write a blank cheque" but cannot write a blank cheque for JT's vacation, giving 11 million in bonus to management, increase in pay for JT and other MP. How ironic?
Yeah the gravy train should be for all members of the bureaucrat class, not just Trudeau
The greed is astounding, but not surprising
If I refuse work I get fired. Same should happen to them.
I like the party that says it wants to be green by having an electric car, carbon taxes during a recession, etc. Wants to force workers that could stay at home and not contribute to polition from cars and create useless traffic on roads. I guess if its not some bullshit they thought up, it doesn't count.
They want 30an hr bec they cant keep up with the inflation… and here i am still on minimum wage
Well that’s your fault tho
@@rayhann8626 well he can apply and do the job then
Rito apply for the gov job, good luck!
@@ZomboCed "that's your fault"- 1950s you could afford a wife to stay at home, two cars and children.
but tell me more about how "it's his fault"- that mentality is so sadistic, psychopathic and evil. and it's smug. and you delude yourself that you're just better than the person making less than you. what if that person is just doing the best he can? what if he has some disability and the best he can manage is a minimum wage job at best? you sicken me
@@14reasons58 i dont think its hard even a high school grad could do it… sometimes its greeed that makes us look stupd
The BC government issued a requirement that people come back to the office for some or all days. After about a month they realized it was a mistake and had separate employee groups work out decisions with their managers, but encouraging WFH where possible. They realized that all the equipment and organization had been changed and that in office work was no longer efficient. It also has a disproportionate impact on workers who already have challenges moving up. Women with kids in school don’t have to hustle off to get them; the kids go to school near the home so they can come home and mom’s there to supervise. Also, workers who are members of groups that face discrimination are happier not having to do all the work of making the others comfortable, and not fending off inappropriate remarks and behaviour, which gets really debilitating after a while. Forcing people to clog up traffic just so downtown coffee shops have business isn’t legit.
Those who complain that public servants don’t do enough work, or particular kinds of work, or have benefits you don’t - be mad at your boss, organize a union and negotiate some benefits. Don’t be mad at other workers trying to negotiate a lower pay cut relative to inflation, or who want to work where they work best. If you think they make high wages for easy work, apply. Please, FAFO 😊
So nice to see that one of these interviewees answering simple questions posed.
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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If you don' like your job, you can leave. There are millions of people in the private sector who are willing to work in the public sector for the same pay, benefits, and work environment as you 🤷♀
They did leave. It would cost us even more money to onboard all these new people you’re talking about. Not realistic. They need to pay more.
@@ghislaincaron9928 right? These people that are angry at the workers wouldn’t last working in expensive Canadian cities feeding a family on those wages. Why can’t people understand that their raise doesn’t mean your demotion. Quite the opposite. If our government workers are paid fairly than that will set a precedent for the rest of Canadian workers.
@@B3B3TTER hmm seems weird that we’ve had record high inflation this year despite people’s wages stagnating.
@@B3B3TTER My point really is that wages have not kept up with inflation. People have cut costs and reduced their personal discretionary spending. This is not good for our economy either. The opposite scenario you are talking about means peoples wages stay stagnant while the cost of living is at a record high. This means that people (including government workers) cannot afford to live on their income.
Unfortunately the only solution I see is that wages just need to go up. Corporations wont reduce their costs unless they're forced to. We really are seeing late stage capitalism.
Do I like Trudeau? Hell no! But if demands are given in, the government should be able to fire any of the sub par performing workers out of the 150,000. And replace them with people who would perform at a high level. Fair pay for fair work and I know for sure there is a lot of useless employees there. this goes for politicians as well. I’ve worked in many unions and I would have been ok firing all the lazy asses “putting in time”.
Pay for performance
@@Grant_S_M Pfizer or Moderna?
goverment workers that perform at a high level hahaha thats like saying Ontario is going to hire 1000 teachers to teach math ...where are they going to find these unicorns
@@hockedad3585 I know, I laughed at myself as I typed that.
@@kurtiousmaximus7130 hey! This is my comment, no crazy vaccine, religion, or flat earth topics! You both go elsewhere 😆
The working conditions in office at federal level are despicable. The offices are disgusting and filthy. Let them work from home. A lot of private companies let their workers stay home 100%. Federal government is incredible backwards.
Maybe they could clean up after themselves.
BS. I gaurntee there's government union cleaning staff that are supposed to be cleaning those places. If they're dirty (I don't believe you), but if they are, talk to the cleaners and fire them if they don't fulfill their contract. Then go fire half the CRA employees that don't work anyway and all your budget problems are solved.
@@smgdfcmfah the cleaners are contractors. In some departments many of the buildings are leased, and the cleaning and maintenance of those buildings are the responsibility of the property manager, and not the government of Canada. It’s like having a landlord who is responsible for cleaning.
@@carlyar5281 Then demand it gets cleaned or move. Such a thing can even be grounds for breaking a lease. Or demand a lower rate and higher your own cleaners. This is how the private sector deals with things, so why is the government so utterly useless that instead of running things properly they use it as an excuse to not come in to work anymore? "Trust us, we'll still work!". Yeah, right. Government is so insanely wasteful and inefficient you can't trust half their employees to work when they ARE in the office with people watching over them.
Pay us more to stay at home. So pampered.
The reality is that anything below the rate of inflation is a real-terms pay cut. With these wage demands, the union isn't fighting for more; they are fighting to keep part of what they have, and they are forced to go on strike to do it.
Comments to the effect that "real workers would be happy with the government's offer," speak more to how bad things are for everyone else than they do to the rapacity of public servants. Public servants are still real workers and they are demanding fair compensation.
Take a note from ELON MUSK....fire 80% of the work force like TIWTTER
Should have taken 9% increase over 3 years. You wanted 14%. Now you get nothing...
I applied for a travel document 15 months ago. Still waiting. I lost my business because they did not do their job. Now strike asking for more money and asking to work from home. Everyone knows that they are not working while they stay at home. You guys are wasting Canadian Taxes.
Freeze their accounts 🕹
Why? How does that help anyone?
Shut down there bank account and send in the horses. Come on Trudeau. This is inconvenient
7:50 Essentials services like "AI", I think you mean "EI"
Nope... AI will replace them ;)
If 3% is fair...why did the Politicans accept 6% automatically? This Party "DOES NOT"
lead by example!
Less Federal Workers means higher wages for the people who want to do the work.
Drain the swamp
she's so condescending
With this inflation workers need a pay increase
How come Trudeau and his gang gets a big raise every years and do not deserve it
Any prime minister
They get it for helping to cover all the scandals the boss finds him self in.
When politicians vote to give themselves close to a 30% raise every year this is what happens.
It's a class war nothing else. I support them
This strike is in regard to a collective agreement for labour, not public policy. These strikers are also not sitting in idling vehicles nor blocking roads. They have only removed their labour. They are still being friendly and supportive of their fellow Canadians.
@D R Rtrd.
@D R You okay bro? You need to lie down.
@@golightly123456 No one blocked the roads. Infact they were in contact with the RCMP the entire time. To make sure no one blocked the roads.
Government should focus on minimizing the inflation and recruitment process for avoiding this chaotic situations
the economy is a clown show. none of it makes logical sense. the government will raise the price of virtually everything on purpose and come up with artificial lies and excuses for their higher earned salaries, due to higher prices. it's really that simple. this isn't complicated. but everyone else makes it so
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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Just give them a one time payment. That's how our gov has solved all Canadian's affordability problems.
Give em a $50 gas card lol jk jk
They deserve a inflation adjustment.
This is a bit better effort by cbc. Earlier coverage seemed to spin the union as the bad guys. This version seems more impartial. Solidarity. For all.
They are. They are demanding better wages in a recession that sees the private sector receiving no wage increase at all and they are bartering with the god damn government who is using our money. But also . . . defund the CBC.
Do you support parasites ?
Fire them. I’ll take a Government job .
Then apply? Who is stopping you now?
@@mikem2253 I’m a straight WHITE male. I don’t fit the agenda. I’ve been told to my face that minorities have priority.
Any other obvious ‘advice’?
3% is plenty and no work from home. Work from home is a benefit and if ya do then no raise.
shame on Those workers who are greedy and not thankful
● PSAC workers deserve a fair inflationary pay increase with remote work protocol built into the collective agreement ●
@@verar5844 If you worked there you would know how lazy they are, coffee breaks, gym breaks, overpaid and underworked.
I’m all for the strike only because they are leading the charge for wage increases for all Canadian jobs to follow. What they get out of this will set precedent on wage increases based on inflationary pressures all of us have experienced
@D R Yeah Justin is an ideologue that is blind to his own hypocrisy when it doesn’t fit the narrative. Many Liberals are about to see how “mad” he can get during this strike, just you watch! These Strikers are about to see just how “righteous” this man can get.
@D R lmao keep malding
Yeah, right. The public sector is plenty well paid for what they do. They are also overstaffed and WAY over managed. This union should be broken and the most useless 20% of wage earners should be fired. That'll free up the money they want for their increased wages without any cost to overburdened tax payer.
@@instinct7624 Spoken like someone who's never had to support themselves or anyone else without handouts from mommy and daddy and/or government. I bet you've never had a real job (public sector doesn't count). You're just like Trudeau!
this strike will do nothing for other workers, we will not get raises and our taxes will increase to fund their raise. get these freeloaders back in the office
“Passports are not essential” ? So just stay in your 15 min cities?
None of these workers were essential during covid. What has changed?
These government workers need to be forced back to work. No Pay Raise at all . We have inflation going through the roof. Government needs to freeze spending at all costs. No more debt!
They’re a bunch of jokes. Those workers should be ashamed of themselves.
Why canadian truckers and poor canadian owner operators are not uniting ??
No union in trucking industry !!
Truckers unite and raise your standards of living
At Home And specially On Highway
Truckers get united 👍👍
Agreed. Truckers are true heroes.
Why would they? When they were out there protesting, they were being mocked and ridiculed by these very people.
Join the Teamsters
Exactly - it would've been something actually worth protesting for. Instead a fraction of them got duped into trying to coup the government over friggin mask mandates that were going away anyways.
@@philaryclinton2912 Lol they were trying to coup the government over mask mandates, not better working conditions or wages. They also assaulted locals and harassed women in Ottawa - they deserved to be hated
Remote/telework is a new normal for many industries. The benefits outweigh the cons in most cases. Remote work has allowed people who live in rural areas the opportunity to work in many new disciplines. This is particularly important when it comes to the federal public service as it benefits from a new diverse workforce that represents Canadians from all parts of Canada, not just the major cities.
So taxes are involved. Peoples money. What servers are being used? Are they encrypted on the person computer? We pay for the buildings. Why should they be payed more? If anything. They are paid too much.
Garbage most of these entitled dishonest workers will take advantage of the system because that’s what dishonest people do. Basically screw people out of service#, all the while these fools will be making a pay cheque with no over sigh5bin what they do. You self entitled unionist are a F’ing scream.
You must be drinking the kool aid, in rural Canada there we still have no respectable or reliable high speed internet despite the political rhetoric- go read the complaints on the service provider websites before you tow the government line of garbage around.
Diverse = people who complain about everything and are never happy.
The cons are the public service workers are abusing it . They go shopping, they have dropped daycare because they are home, Lunches, Two or 3 hours a day is what some of them are working for 8 hour pay days.
Its almost unbelievable to see how people fighting for fair wage increase to match inflation is causing backlash. WFH has proven over and over again that more work gets done, its better for the environment and creates a better work life balance. The people against are either ones that stand to lose something from it, businesses that will need to find new alternatives to lunch time buyers or managers that feel like they need to watch their employees every moment they can. Not like they aren't already doing that with the amount of spyware on your work computer. The absolute worst are the workers who try to make the argument "well I can't work from it so neither should you".
How much would it cost the Canadian taxpayer for all of the government union demand?
No one likes more taxes to pay for public sector wage/benefit increase when most in the private sectors are suffering from lay-off and wage reduction etc.
@@fkb247 Less than the 14% raise the MPs get year over year. The union is asking for 13% over 3 years, so pretty simple to see where more taxpayer money is going to...I honestly don't buy into the issue of taxpayers complaining about we'll have to pay more if the government bends to the union, that argument only holds if people just completely ignore the mountains of wasted programs and issues that goes on with government spending. Striking because inflation is out of control and works want to be able to just match that is not an unfair demand.
We need to privatize this sector. Would save the tax payers so much money in the long run.
@@fkb247 well if you really want me to break it down. And no I am not qualified in anyway to say this or be asked this so take EVERYTHING you see here with a massive grain of salt but here we go
So the Union is asking for a 13% raise of 3 years so 4.4% and given that the salary range for a PSAC can vary quite widely from 50k - 120k we could say we could average it out to about 60-70k a year, meaning a 4.4% raise comes between 2.7k - 3.5k a year for the "average" employee, assuming they apply this to all 127k members of PSAC would come out to 340 million a year give or take a few million (Just reminding I am in no way qualified for this and am taking MASSIVE assumptions with these numbers). Okay so now how many people file taxes every year 27.5 million file every year. So assuming nothing changed and this was the only tax increase we ever saw for the entire year (which we all know isn't true) every person who put into the tax system would pay about $12.55 more. But gonna state this one last time alot of assumptions were made here but considering you asked me to throw you a ball park number there you go.
TLDR: $12.55
"REMOTE WORK" ...for how many people? Remote working has been proven to be a very abused perk. IF remote work is going to be considered, it should be considered ONLY if the keyboard is being monitored. This 155,000 workers ....of which no one know how many people might be able to work remotely. If there is no monitoring system, then there WILL be abuses GUARANTEED.
And IF remote working is being considered THEN there should be no considering any kind of wage increase over what has been offered ....9% over three years.
Just imagine these people already making $120,000 .....and demanding a "FAIR WAGE".
Those making the higher salaries should NOT be offered the same pay raises because they would receive MORE MONEY than those making lesser wages. PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS SHOULD ALL BE DE-CERTIFIED AND MADE ILLEGAL ALL ACROSS CANADA IN ALL THREE GOVERNMENT LEVELS. THEY ARE ALL A PART OF THE PROBLEM OF INFLATION ....CREATING HARDSHIPS ON ALL CANADIANS ...WHO ARE THE ONES FUNDING THESE CONSTANT PAY RAISES.
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The reality is, they hardly work. Fact! Did you know they are still getting paid till at least May 10th, for doing nothing.
This doesn't make sense, anytime i call any Government service, the person who answers the phone can never speak English properly, so who are the people striking?
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@@candace974
Exactly, they always transfer me, then i wait 20 minutes and the call gets hung up on.
Wow, so you've just jumped straight to racism. Good for you to just own that you're an awful person. Most people try to pretend they aren't.
How come JT and Freeland haven't invoked the Emergencies Act? Does this Federal Workers Strike not pose a threat to Canadians? After all it is tax season and I'm sure there are a lot of families that are expecting returns that could offset all of JT's taxes and help put food in their fridges
People do not feel safe with these mobs in the streets, and the bullhorns are very upsetting, like horns.
Part of this strike is to work from home? WTF!? Why is that even on the table?
They mean "stay at home". Work is never part of their actual plan.
Yet they don't seem to have a problem going on the picket line.
Because efficiency increased during the pandemic. Most people prefer it, at all levels of government. And if they don't, they can go in. And not only did service to the public not halt during the pandemic, however it increased, but the amount of taxpayer money the government spends uselessly to rent incredibly sized buildings to house their workers IS INSANE.
Working from home was a raise by itself.
@@onyourbikes Because there was a huge run on services? Do you not realize how many more people were calling in with questions, checking on applications, etc?
Some people were moved from doing their work to taking phone calls in order to handle the influx. It's taking longer to process things because there was a lot more work to do.
Wait... is that someone blocking a road? By blocking the road and not doing their jobs they are interfering with and stopping trade and commerce. Time to freeze their bank accounts and call in the police with the people trampling horses.
You sound a little triggered there; sure this is exactly the same as shutting down our trading routes between Canada and the US. Keep malding, snowflake
I think that's only for them truck boys.
Fire all those who demand more than 9 percent wage increase. Federal people are dumb. any employees that need remote work should be atleast capable of understanding technology. or there will be more issues
And have secure internet and phone connections, plus no dogs or children in their work space.
All workers in Canada need better wages. more strike wave is coming.....
The remote work is all about the Lieberals wanting to control the flow of workers into the downtown core. They want to buy votes in Ottawa by forcing workers to commute into the downtown and buy lunch etc. As for the remote work, I work in the federal jurisdiction and we have remote working arrangements in the collective agreement now.
Where do you work?
These people hardly work to deserve the pay increase the files keep waiting for months
The service to Canadians was done remotely, looking at what “other” jurisdictions is NOT a reason to order us to change “remote” to “hybrid”
get back to work. you only get busy for 3 months out of the year (tax season) and you walked. No respect for you or your issues
The MPs are hybrid and not in the House, so who cares? They can all zoom from Bermuda. Why not?
Make 6 figures working at home 😯
Wrong place and wrong time for this strike and these demands. Read the room union guys, everyone in Canada is suffering!
It’s not just about the money. Don’t forget, they want to work exclusively from home now on our dime after having it easy for 2+ years. I guess the problem is that Netflix won’t watch itself while you’re busy working in downtown office!
“Remote Work” … so basically they want a day or two off each week.
Yeah that’s exactly what remote work is
Especially with access to our personal sensitive information ℹ️ unless they have cameras monitoring them while working remote. I don’t trust it
They want to continue working in their Spiderman pajamas and fuzzy slippers. Occasionally release a fart here and there with no Manager breathing down their neck. Do about 3-4 hours of actual work on a typical 8 hour shift. Working from home for these lazy government workers is a permanent vacation. If anything they should be getting a pay decrease with all the money they are saving working from home!
Maybe that's what you think because that's what you'd do yourself but I know that I personally put in way more unpaid hours of work when I'm at home because I have just a few more things to do, or because I'm saving the time I would have spent commuting. Maybe instead of outing yourself and your lack of values, maybe just stay quiet about things you clearly have no clue about.
It has been shown over and over that remote work is a LOT more effective than on site work.
fire the union tell them to get back to work and they need a pay cut greedy very greedy they are
Simple, they take a drop in pay and they are saving driving to work, no parking costs, etc. so offer them a 15% pay drop for any that want to work from home!
Fire them all!!! So am I gonna get 9 % increase in taxes per year over three years now????
Man, I wish I could whine and complain for more wages. Unfortunately, in the real world. We have to compete for wages. These lazy people just want handouts for doing very little. Just hire a staffing firm and outsource these jobs.
Remote work for everyone else means finding another job if your current employer doesn't offer it.
come on you guys get paid a great deal more than most and the ability to work in your PJ's at home is ridiculous get back to work
A friend's son applied to join the RCAF last July. He's still waiting. He's just about to give up and move on. Sad.
Meanwhile, with rampant VR's, some students and lower rank personnel are waiting years for their trade courses, as instructors are few and far between. Have friends who are just starting their trade course after 3 years...
He’ll get in eventually. Hell he might even be able to work from home !
This strike will not affect his application.
If he is still waiting, it’s because the trade he applied for is not open or there’s a backlog for training and if he really wants to get in he should apply for more trades. He should follow-up with recruiting office and find out the status of his file and what he can do.
Given the service over the past few years they should get the wages they deserve......how about a 14% cut?
they shouldn't be allowed to work from home because the tax payers have to pay the crazy amounts for the buildings in prime downtown locations they work at... having those building empty would be a massive waste
We could sell the buildings
Enjoy not having your passport then lol. I won't process your passport unless I work from home. We did it during the pandemic. Not everyone needs to work in an office to do their job description.
Almost like this issue came up at the start of the pandemic and they could have easily sold off those buildings by now, they saw more productivity and could have easily sold off those buildings but because the downtown business cried that they were making less. Your taxes "should" go down if they sold off those building but considering Justin and his gang keep bumping up their wages you'll see another tick up in your taxes.
A lot of departments did that!
Hundreds of thousands of dollars has been saved by departments divesting of their properties and buildings. But minister Fortier and the treasury board is forcing those departments to spend that money and more to acquire more office space because of the “hybrid“ plan.
NO ONE CARES ABOUT THIS STRIKE
"management right" LMAO.....old mentality
They want a wage increase; I am in complete agreement. They want the right to work from home; I lose all sympathy.
They want the decision about work from home and to be made by the individual departments and not arbitrarily by the president of the treasury board. Most of the employees in this strike don’t work from home because they are the frontline workers. Part of the issue is the way that the decision about hybrid work was made by the government that has infuriated everyone because there is an insufficient workspace for remote workers to return office. The individual departments had already assess their operations and decided on their new business model, but the city of Ottawa lobbied the federal government to change things. This change is going to remove the cost savings that department had found by offloading real estate. That decision is costing Canadian taxpayers and it doesn’t need to. It’s a waste of money.
what in the world is wrong with working from home
@@carlyar5281 THANK YOU! Our WFH policy's Have, and will be dependent on operational requirements, and decided upon by management. We want to protect that arrangement
It's in your best interest for workers to perform duties remotely. Not only is it saving the environment from commuting, but saving millions each year otherwise spent to rent enormous buildings to house workers. The government doesn't own most of these buildings, they lease them.
this interviewer is hard af
I’d like my tax refund back please. I pay my taxes for you to do your job. But yet here you are not doing it, yet I still have to pay my taxes in everything we buy and every cheque I cash.
Same ppl that were scared of the truckers are outside doing the same now 😂
Except they are well dressed, weathers not -35, no bbqs or bouncy castles! Omgoodness! They are up on the lawn!! Where are the armed guards?
They should all work from home instead of paying for offices
I agree and then take those empty buildings like Pierre said and make them into low cost housing units...yep.sounds good to me ,they can all work off the beach for all I care ,when you get greedy ,no one is behind them !
Yes good idea. This way they can work 2 or 3 hours a day for 8 hour a day pay. Get in the real world.
@@corky_cork lol..And you think they actually worked 8 hours a day at home for the last two years ,everything was running soooo smoothly ...lol..get in the real world ! They need to get back to work and DO their jobs !
@@maryparker67 You’re absolutely right I meant PRIVATE sector works 5 days a week . A large amount of Public (government workers) have not been working 5 days a week from home. A lot of them have been working 2 or 3 hours a day from home and getting paid for 8. Perhaps a lot of the hard workers from the Private sector making half the money, half the holidays, no dental care etc. etc. would give anything to have one of those high paying jobs.
Why hasn't the EMA been invoked yet ?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0:08 Wages that they deserve? The simple solution is to quit and see if you can get what your are paid along with your benefits in the private sector.
Lady Mona Fortier....you better work fast....we need our passports on time..we need our EIs too...what the hell Canada has become!
When people, especially politicians talk with their hands in excess for no reason I immediately assume it's to settle the listener from deception.
it's always amusing that the strike will just end up paying for their raises. I think if this is tax payers money we should be the ones to vote on what they get.
That would sure be something.
like that'll ever happen.
It's in your best interest for workers to perform duties remotely. Not only is it saving the environment from commuting, but saving millions each year otherwise spent to rent enormous buildings to house workers. The government doesn't own most of these buildings, they lease them.
@@twildabuckingham you don't care about the enviroment and neither does any other sociopath virtue signaling about it. and furthermore, making everyone work from home makes nothing but ghost towns, you demon
Well said
Aaaand… traffic has never been better in Ottawa. 👍
Yep but thats not a solution they found so its not green. Its better to make a carbon tax and have a unrealistic goal of everyone dring electric cars in 2025.
Haha. Say what you will about the CBC/CTV etc., but I love how they always so subtly and politely call them out when they are dodging questions...which they always continue dodging because they have media training. Speaking of...is there a way we can change our media training to get more people to give interesting answers? It's kind of funny...but I'd love to see politicians, athletes, etc. give us a little more insight into what's going on.
She sounds like Justin Trudeau
I wonder if 1 AI computer could replace 150,000 public employees? Isn't the whole purpose of government suppose to serve the public in as fast, effiently and cost effectively as possible ? I'd like a stay at home position too : How about instead of going to government buildings, you could log onto your home computer, click on the service your looking for and a friendly nice person pops up on your screen and in no time flat boom there's a digital copy of your passport, while the friendly attendant asks how's your day going how elce may they be of assistance to you. Hmmmm Let's find out if there's a business case to be made.
That's not how AI works, nor how public service works.
@@opensolaris6218 but it is a romanticized idea of how it could work
@@opensolaris6218 actually its accurate on how a Public Service job works.
Hope AI will take over.. no Hussle .. no need to deal with unfriendly and grumpy people!
@@novacomputerss4036 ok, if that's what you choose to believe, go for it -- all the power to you!
#trudeaumustgo
I know those commercial building owners working very hard to bring back government employees to office, to some extent I will use the word "bribe". Please ask this lady how much she earned and the bonuses she walked away with.
Time to invoke the Emergencies Act! Their views are unacceptable.
Shouldn't CBC be on strike?
This work from home option and 13.5% raise is not practical. The idea is to offset cost, so if they want to work from home then 13.5% is very high. It shouldn’t work that way. Plus, they haven’t proven themselves to be very effective, when it comes to working from home. Passport office was a disaster and immigration applications processing is sub par. Maybe 10% and no work from home is justified.
lock em up and take thier bank accounts🤣
Support workers! Support your local union!
You should go read their ridiculous demands.
I don't support workers that do very little and get paid by tax-dollars.
I am not supporting those parasites
It's nice to see working class solidarity here. There are far too many who are excited by the idea of being exploited. Why, I'm not entirely sure, a mix of believing that others should be exploited since they are and liberals bad I suppose.
No raise in 8 years for me Tax me more below poverty so they can get the 13% nobody else gets unless working for Pfizer or Moderna.
Shut the doors and fire them all
poily will fix this up he is a leader with a big loud mouth loves unions
The federal workers have a pretty good initial deal from Canada. 1.5% 2021, 3% 2022 and 4.5% 2023+ raises are very good. Compare this with what public school teachers get in Quebec: 3% raise in 2023 and 1.5% for every year after. And teachers' salaries start at 46k, requiring a bachelor's degree. Furthermore, teachers aren't guaranteed to have full-time status due to chronic course scheduling problems. Many are part-time and do not even start at 46k. They start at 10k per year. I am speaking from experience as a teacher in a Quebec public school myself.