'If all employers gave in to these kinds of wage demands, we’d have seven per cent inflation forever'
Some low-income workers do need emergency raises just to eat, as grocery costs rise. But PSAC members are not those workers. It’s simply not fair for the rest of the labour force to endure corporate austerity and price increases while government employees dine out.In the lockdown era of COVID-19, millions of Canadians saw their income disrupted, with workers in entire industries turning to CERB and employment insurance payments to keep their homes and put food on the table.
Government workers didn’t lose an hour of pay, even as much of the economy ground to a halt. The privilege of working from home, which these workers are fighting to maintain, was a temporary measure to serve public health, not another perk for bureaucrats looking to avoid a daily commute and parking fees.
Do these people have no idea how tone-deaf they sound to the rest of the country? It is ordinary working citizens who pay to support the public sector, with its bloated salaries, defined-benefit pensions and work-from-home lifestyle. To heck with them. They don’t deserve another a fat raise while impairing service delivery across the country. The federal Liberals, if they have any sense, will break the strike and send these entitled employees back to work.
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