Public sector austerity unreasonable and irrational
Provincal Finance Minister Dwight Duncan speaks to the media at Ryerson University prior to delivering his March budget that focused on debt reduction. This week he meets public sector union leaders to discuss a wage freeze.
Rick Eglinton/Toronto StarTue Jul 20 2010
Unions should launch a campaign to expose the fallacy of restraint during a weak recovery.
Echo of Bob Rae’s social contract
Dwight Duncan will be meeting with public sector workers and union leaders on Tuesday to appeal to them about a two year wage freeze. Talk about a daunting task, the government wants to engage the biggest unionized workforce in the country and tell them that they must bear some of the burden facing this have not province with an increasing deficit. Good luck, although I am unsure of how the unions will react to this. We've known about it for quite some time now, since March in fact and there has been plenty of discussion surrounding this, and from my involvement in the university sector, it looks as though we will be telling them an resounding No.
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to freeze their members’ wages.
Echo of Bob Rae’s social contract
Tue Jul 20 2010
Faced with a $20 billion deficit, provincial Finance Minister Dwight Duncan is meeting today with public sector unions to discuss his planDwight Duncan will be meeting with public sector workers and union leaders on Tuesday to appeal to them about a two year wage freeze. Talk about a daunting task, the government wants to engage the biggest unionized workforce in the country and tell them that they must bear some of the burden facing this have not province with an increasing deficit. Good luck, although I am unsure of how the unions will react to this. We've known about it for quite some time now, since March in fact and there has been plenty of discussion surrounding this, and from my involvement in the university sector, it looks as though we will be telling them an resounding No.
Read more »Original post blogged on zerodivision.
to freeze their members’ wages.
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