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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
one last note about unions and public sector jobs.
once you get to the top step on your pay scale, you're done. you're at the top of your grade, so unless you can learn some new skills and change positions to one with a higher grade, you'll be living off that salary for the rest of your career.
there often isn't cost of living increases, (especially in this economic climate.) there isn't bonuses. your spending power just slowly becomes less and less as taxes and bills and prices go up.
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There is also almost zero risk of losing your employment. Most sectors operate in a monopoly so there is very little incentive to find efficiencies or cut costs. Budgets, at least in Alberta, have consistently increased for decades.
I'm fairly certain most of the 100,000-200,000 people who have lost their jobs in the private sector over the past four years would have been quite happy with a set pay grade for eternity.