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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
That's really the entire point. Any private business that is forced to pay these outrageous union demands will go under.
In the public sector, the unions openly bleed taxpayers dry. But they don't really care about the sustainability of government, there's no competition, and as long as their members are better off than the general public, they really don't care about the long term. Taxdollars going towards bloated salaries and pensions that should be building schools, roads and hospitals makes absolutely no sense in the current environment. Public sector unions need to be reigned in, and the UCP has some great ideas on how to remove their influence. That's why you're seeing the panicked public unions use so much of their forced union dues for political advertising lately.
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This is a bunch of baloney. The unions are doing their best to fairly represent their members, but they also do understand the long view and are by far not bleeding anyone dry. They have taken concessions and had long amounts of time between even cost of living raises during the boom times.
You want to see bloated salaries? Look higher up the food chain than the AUPE employees, it's management and Crown Corps like the AER where the real good salaries lie. Your 10% figure comes from a Fraser Institute report that is inherently flawed because it uses a small sample gleaned from the Labour Survey which has an inherent sampling error which they never account for, as well as counting all levels of public servants in one pot, federally, provincial, local and all crown corps.
I get you are pissed off, but you are just making baseless, uninformed accusations about a lot of good people based on your slanted, neo-liberal viewpoint. These people care about Alberta and Albertans as much as anyone, and while you and them view how to best help Alberta may be different, this is just a classless way to express it.