The country's largest federal public service union says if a deal isn't reached with the federal government by 9 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, it will launch a strike this Wednesday.
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If the government workers go on strike and they aren’t missed ,does that extra 30 percent of workers added in the last few years seem excessive?
They will be missed don’t worry about that. Try calling for tax help
@Jumbo Me trying to talk to the government is a task in futility.
@Jumbo Me a lot of them can be replaced by a robot 🤣
@Kieron A lol to bad they will not be eh.
@Kieron A Woah! Too fa..beep boop
I hope there is a class action holding them accountable for the interest on the holding of over paid taxes owed to citizens.
Interest is always paid out. Its at 6% ?
Thanks for the great report!
Government employees should not be allowed to strike. All wages should be based on the laws of supply and demand.
Funny as private sector workers doing similar work get paid more.
@TNTCanada 420 Yes.
@Jim Davison Maybe because they work much harder and effective in the private sector?
@Ukraino TV You can’t say things like that when you can’t prove it. Do you have numbers to back up your statement?
Uh… how would that work exactly? Even in the private sector there are pretty wildly different salaries in the same sectors for the same work, but how would a supply and demand model work for government?
Who can afford to settle CRAs wishes in this economy Let them strike we cannot continue to bend because the system is broken No money for them They are lucky to have those “cash for life” salaries
Cash for life salaries? Care to explain? You go to work and do your job the same as anyone else. Don’t go and you don’t get paid.
@Jim Davison You make double the average Joe makes! Whiner!!!
@Rick Show me where you get that from? Take into account most civil servants have some post secondary education in general book keeping and/or accounting. They could be making more in the private sector in fact several leave the government to do just that. I know someone who started working for the government in 93 and has three years of post secondary education in book keeping. They make 30 thousand less then a high school educated employee for a medical software company I know.
@Jim Davison entry level Job is what 38k a year with no experience? You’re not hurting, this is greed.
@Derrick Sounds like you should try to get a job with government of you think its such a sweet deal.
We need them back into their office. Government representatives must physically be presented at their desks and do effective work to resolve tax payers issues. Instead of having phone calls, spending hours over the phone, waiting for responses, and being transferred from person to person. Government representatives must be properly trained and appropriately appointed to do their work. They want raises for being distant and many times not effective, working in the comfort of their home, while many others must travel distances in any weather. Come back to your offices and properly do your job !!
They should be fired. Just useless. AI and IT will do a better job.
They want AI to replace humans so they don’t have to pay anyone and worry or deal with strikes
I’d hurray Al in all Government positions. Cheap and effective. Can I call Government workers Covidiots and extrmists? Karma backfires finally.
CRA has not done anybody any favours lol.
Everytime I call somewhere that has work at home workers … they take forever to answer – when they finally do, their kids are in the background screaming and the TV blaring so loud it is hard to hear them talk over the background noise. One time a girl said she was putting me in hold for a minute (just happened to be lunch time)- 40 minutes later she came back and I said, Did you go for lunch and leave me on hold?! She wouldn’t deny it. Must have been also a pee break too at my expense or time to make her food.
Who gets a pay raise that big, especially when you aren’t working for a company that makes large profits …. my hard earned money that pays for your wages is not a profit company to you! They have a cush job, not hard labour – quit acting entitled.
They all need to work together in the same room so they can communicate… like every other place that works efficiently (they don’t even do that now so why break the departments more).
Maybe they can team up with the truckers again😂
Failing Goverment 😮💨 vote of no confidence plz smh 🤦🏾♂️
Screw remote work ..
Smaller government!
“ Smaller government “ what a tired , silly, corporatist trope.
@Mike MacMillan see you on the picket line?
No Government. Replace it by AI.
No surprise they are going on strike. The bottom line is they would get what they ask. No matter what other citizens say
what are you saying? In English please!
Up next, the Ontario teachers union demands a 35% increase in pay because babysitting with iPads is hard.
Yeah okay
this is why you you get into a union, things cost so much it’s impossible to live in canada, it’s time more protests happen.
155,000 workers? What are they all doing? Picking their nose? To say we need a smaller government is an understatement.
90% of Ottawa employees are federal workers. It’s safe to say the bureaucracy is bloated
i’m surprised to learn that they are “low-paid” or “under-paid” folks.
You know what is frustrating.? My wage has gone down since 2016, yet prices for everything are skyrocketing. Im am in construction, and it has been pretty hit and miss the last 10 years. I do alot of work for oil companies and they have been pretty shady in their dealings with small companies.
wait… I thought they were already on strike. Anyways, will it change anything.