According to NS budget documents the real GDP in the province is going to increase each year between 0.8 percent and 0.9 percent from 2015 to 2018. If the economy grew the government should be able to give the workers a raise. Why not three quarters of a percent each year for public sector workers for the four years. At the end of the contract switch to a different more affordable formula for the long service award.
Politicians shouldn’t give less and unions shouldn’t ask for more. —Citizen for fairness
This article appears in Jan 12-18, 2017.
Union’s raison d’tre is to ask for more. That’s why they’re victims of their own success…
Politicians should give less, since as Thoreau says, “That government is best which governs least”…
Why don’t they? Because they haven’t earned the income yet… it’s a budget.
budget bjt/ noun
1. an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
synonyms: financial plan, forecast
If you’re spending income for which you’ve budgeted, you’re a fool.
Right, because who needs infrastructure or new business in NS? These unions are the reason this province is in debt!
The union would reject your offer.
Because teachers will work to rule, and the parents will offer them blind support.
@ Great Value – this parent does NOT. Taxpayers cannot afford to pay a full time employee to photocopy teacher’s work in each and every school. That’s only one example of the ridiculous “asks” of the NSTU. They claim to care about the children but what they want will force low income families to decide between heat or food.
Public opinion will shift in an instant if the teachers reject another offer brought to them by the union leadership. Even now I’d say their support is on thin ice.
Not unreasonable, but NSGEU got 7.5% over 3 years last time. So if it’s circle-the-wagons-time and the wage offer is more modest, gotta take the bad with the good now and then. Perhaps raises should also be tied to the state of the provincial deficit…