Tuesday April 25: Ottawa prof has been through enough, says one reader\u003B others weigh in on the public service strike.
PSAC should share vote dataTwenty-eight per cent of federal employees is not an “overwhelming majority” wanting to go on strike. Thank you, Christopher Nardi, for letting us know the true “strike mandate” that the unions received from their members: 80 per cent of the 35 per cent of federal workers who were actually able to cast a vote.
My husband was not able to vote and when he contacted the union, was told they could not find any record of him. Little has changed in how the union leaders manage their interaction with their paying members. In my 32 years as a public servant, I rarely heard from my union, except when it wanted to go on strike — this despite its ability to garnishee part of my salary each month.Article content
PSAC president Chris Aylward has a duty to his union members — and to Canadians — to share the actual number of those who voted to strike.I am not a government employee. But I do find it bad PR for those on strike that your paper would print a picture of what is probably a PSAC employee lying down on Parliament Hill, bagging some rays while picketing. These people are already getting a bad enough rap for striking — for $75 a day, minus parking.
That’s why it’s so insulting to hear Chrystia Freeland suggest that our contract demands would be a burden on the taxpayer. Where was that concern when MPs voted to give themselves a $15,000 raise on April 1? They did the same thing last April 1.
In that vein, I thank Pierre Poilievre for shedding light on this issue. I believe that a periodic unbiased audit of CBC and Radio Canada by the auditor general or Parliamentary Budget Officer would streamline these institutions as they so ably work within their parliamentary mandates to remain a vital service to all Canadians.
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