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Originally Posted by yads
http://www.justice.gov.sk.ca/provcou...20MCMillan.pdf
According to that, Per capita incomes in Alberta have gone up from 30K to 48K from 2000-2010. In 2000 the population was about 2.88 million and in 2010 it was 3.725 million. In 2000 we were spending $6,800 million on public sector salaries and in 2010 it was $14,900 million. So on a per capita basis we were spending $2,361 in 2000 and in 2010 it was $4,000. A growth of 69% while all per capita income increased 60% in the same time span.
Keep in mind that public sector salaries are included in the per capita salary. If you take those away, private sector salary increases are even less.
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Good points, but 2000 is a convenient point to start at. As I recall, it was around 2002 or so when public sector unions started getting really good contracts, in part because of the concessions that were made at the start of the Klein government.
Those good contracts, however, definitely had a knock on effect in other provinces.Unions in Saskatchewan and BC (and probably farther afield) definitely used them as a base to get better contracts for their memberships.