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Originally Posted by Wormius
Why would somebody of any reasonable intelligence vote for the UCP?
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There are many reasons. Alot of the discussion in this thread is about the extremes and about the headlines.
However, people are mostly one-issue voters and don't look at the extremes. I'll give you one example in my world. The non-union Alberta employee wage freeze.
2016:
https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...-salary-freeze
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The move will freeze the salaries — and movement within salary grids — for roughly 7,000 senior officials, managers and other non-unionized government employees at 2015 levels until at least April 2018, Ceci said.
Ceci said he expects it will keep roughly $57 million in provincial coffers over two years.
He said the freeze won’t affect unionized public employees and dismissed the idea of reopening negotiated contracts.
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Two year wage freeze turned into 6 years. With the UCP, they stopped the freeze and there has been two one time wage increases. One in mid 2022 of 12% to make people who were there from the start whole again and then another increase at the end of 2022, and expecting another one later this year.
2022:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ends-1.6403001
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Thousands of Alberta government managers and non-unionized workers will receive pay raises Friday — some of them for the first time in six years.
In late December, the United Conservative Party government decided to end a six-year wage freeze for more than 3,700 provincial government employees.
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I'm one of these managers and was not able to receive a raise nor increase wages of my employees nor increase the head count of my team even though the workload has increase 3-fold. Something iggy_oi has blasted me about for years, very fairly. Girly doesn't pay her employees, well, I can't.
So if you're a non-union Alberta provincial worker, why would you vote for the NDP who could freezing your wages again?