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Originally Posted by Traum
The thing I took issue with is, the unions that I have some level of familiarity with is getting anything but fat union pay cheques. Under the Liberals, most unions got their small carrots in the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Since then, they have been putting up with freezes or more often cutbacks in staff levels, 0% wage increases for at least 2 years, with subsequent increases hovering around the 1% mark. Meanwhile, MLA's have been getting their healthy pay raises in the name of "talent retention", inflation continues to stay higher than what meager salary increases the province has agreed to (after aggressive job action and such). So for the past few years at least, I really don't think the provincial unions have made any unreasonable demands for "fat pay cheques".
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Oh I'm fully aware of the Liberals' hatred for organized labour. I was talking about the BC NDP, however-in the 90s, they were in cahoots with big unions, whose bosses
did get fat paycheques. Who's to say that 2013 will be any different?
Nor am I saying that there should be a heavy handed approach to unions ala Wisconsin-my mom is in the BCGEU and I am appreciative of what unions do for the middle and lower classes.