A common election\u002Dnight trope of victorious politicians is the promise to unite and work for everyone, whether or not they were supporters of the winning team.
It was an argument that many Canadians bought into — with 48 per cent supporting the union’s wage demands, according to Angus Reid Institute polling, compared to 40 per cent who were opposed. “It wasn’t a supermajority, but it was enough,” says Institute president Shachi Kurl. “It was a lean or a tilt towards what the workers were looking for, and put some wind in Chris Aylward’s and PSAC’s sails and gave them some room to flex.
That said, it’ll take time before workers elsewhere learn if they will reap similar benefits, and so I expect we’ll continue to hear some of the same complaints that have been echoed over recent weeks, including the common “Why should they get a big raise when I haven’t had one in years?” reasoning that leads a futile and counterproductive race to the bottom.
In another Angus Reid Institute poll, this one from last June—back when airport delays and passport processing backlogs were frustrating travellers—Canadians rated the services they received from the feds as the worst of the three levels of government.Article content Turning that tide, a measure that the employees on either side of the table should jointly support, shouldn’t be difficult: Simply help the public. Isn’t that what the bureaucracy is supposed to do?
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