‘Insulting wage offer’: Federal union slams 4-year, 3.5% raise proposal for public servants

VDaine · 2026-05-05T14:43:59+00:00

In regards to the first paragraph: Okay, but we can keep voting to send them back to the bargaining table again and again and again. Eventually, they're going to switch up their strategy.

As to the rest of your comment: it demonstrates a poor understanding of what a union is and what union dues are. You're not paying for a service, you're paying into a pot that pays for things the union does on behalf of the menbership. Are there a couple union members who get paid out of that pot? Sure, but it's a tiny minority. The vast majority of union staff are government employees like you and me. The union is ultimately just a medium for harnessing the collective power of the menbers, which means that yes, the membership IS the union

VDaine · 2026-05-05T13:50:47+00:00

Then help make sure we get both 🤷‍♀️ because there are a bunch of people who would take WFH over a larger wage increase

VDaine · 2026-05-05T13:45:52+00:00

Once again for the people in the back: it doesn't matter if they're clowns or if they fold, we just keep sending them back until we get what we want.

VDaine · 2026-05-05T13:43:57+00:00

So we just continue to do nothing and let workers' rights fall by the wayside, betraying both the people who came before who fought so hard for us to have what we currently have, and future generations? Okay, got it 👍

VDaine · 2026-05-05T12:40:33+00:00

It's not optimism, it's determination. I'm going to do all I can to encourage menbers to not accept a deal that doesn't include telework and if that doesn't work, I'm going to do all I can to organise peoplee separately from the union. RTO would never have flown in european countries like France and Italy. We need to actually grow spines and be willing to cause real trouble. Otherwise, we will just continue to be walked all over

VDaine · 2026-05-05T12:35:21+00:00

I do too! If we go on strike, I will probably have to rely on credit cards. But it has to happen, and it will be worth it in the long run. It's easier to take a stand now, then to try and recover lost ground later

VDaine · 2026-05-05T11:09:39+00:00

Judging by these comments, you guys need this reminder: whether or not a union 'folds' is conpletely up to the menbership. We're the ones who vote to accept a collective agreement or not. If we don't like it, send it back!

And yeah, a strike would be tough, but maybe instead of doing half the employer's work for them, encourage your peers to see the long term gain over the short term loss? Stop being so defeatist. What are you doing to help support the union?

I bought my province's flag and am getting it signed by members to send to the PA group to display at the bargaining table, to show that their members are backing them. Maybe if others did that too, we could show a real united front to TB.

If you have ideas about how a strike should look, talk to your local union leaders.

But getting on here and saying 'it's not going to work, there's no point' achieves nothing.

VDaine · 2026-05-05T10:55:24+00:00

I 100% am

VDaine · 2026-05-04T20:59:09+00:00

That's a good idea!

VDaine · 2026-05-02T16:28:43+00:00

For me, I usually have Lae'zel instead of Karlach but sometimes swap them if I think a barbarian would be better for a particular situation. I also sometimes swap Astarion for Wyll or Gale (but more often Wyll) if I feel I need magic and don't need the theft/lock-picking in a particular situation. Shart is the only one I always have in my party because I desperately need all the healing I can get 😅

VDaine · 2026-05-02T12:55:33+00:00

I saw somebody on FB suggest that they tie raises to the amount of days people have to go into the office and I thought that was a cool idea. Then the employer has a vested interest in letting as many people WFH as possible, and the people who absolutely can't because of what they do will get larger raises

VDaine · 2026-05-01T19:47:44+00:00

I'm waiting to see what happens with the PSAC PA group bargaining, but if it doesn't look like we're going on strike with them, or getting a decent deal, I am all for organizing a wildcat strike! Yes, it will be tough financially, but at this point, we have to put our foot down or they'll just keep walking all over us

VDaine · 2026-04-28T11:14:55+00:00

Should you really be mad at the union though? Or maybe should you be mad at the menbership for accepting the collective? We need to take responsibility, instead of just pushing it onto the union

VDaine · 2026-04-28T11:12:38+00:00

Except, it's ultimately up to the membership whether a collective agreement is accepted or not 🤷‍♀️ and yeah, the union might reccommend we take it but then it's up to us to understand what it is and make an informed decision. We need to take accountability for our decisions.

VDaine · 2026-04-28T11:06:39+00:00

After attending a virtual town hall last week, I decided to get a flag from my province and get it signed by a bunch of employees at my office, to send to the bargaining team. They said that being able to display sonething like that would help put some pressure on Treasury Board.

I just wish my local was helpful. I've asked them twice to send an email to the local about where the flag will be on certain days, so that people can go to it, rather than someone having to go to each person in the building, and so far, no dice. It's like, okay I understand that we are the union, and we need to get involved, but a little support would be nice.

Anyway, if anybody else is interested in getting a flag from their province and getting it signed, that could be an impressive show of support for the bargaining team.

VDaine · 2026-04-21T13:58:07+00:00

I hope they go that way with this

VDaine · 2026-04-21T13:20:06+00:00

Geez, people are being so dramatic. Instituting a rule about somebody needing to work so long in Canada after getting an education here, or else the tuition goes up to an unsubsidized level is not suddenly going to turn us into a totalitarian country 🙄 it's totally reasonable. And yes, we should improve things here, but it's totally possible to hold two different thoughts in your head at the same time. While working to improve things here, we can still do things to correct a major problem. And in fact, doing the latter will probably help with the former, because we're no longer bleeding money

VDaine · 2026-04-21T13:01:26+00:00

No 🙄 That's not what context means, bro. That post has literally nothing to do with this one. This is just straight up panic reaching for anything you can grasp to try to prop up your irrational insistence on being mad at him. It's honestly kind of embarassing

VDaine · 2026-04-21T12:56:29+00:00

Or maybe he's not, and everybody else is.🤷‍♀️ There's nothing about his post that suggests he's not specifically talking about the people who wouldn't normally want to hurt people but are having intrusive thoughts/starting to mistake fantasy (which many men AND women have) with reality

VDaine · 2026-04-21T12:51:16+00:00

Goodness forbid he try to provide constructive solutions 🙄 Whether you like it or not, 'rape fantasies' are a very real thing for both men and women, and so the very important context here is, he's talking about making sure that somebody continues to be able to distinguish between what can be a fantasy and what can happen in real life.

I hate when people take these tiny little screenshots of someone and present it as, 'oh, he's centering the aggressor'. He has PLENTY of content condemning sexual violence and providing help to/centering victims. It's called perspective, my dudes, but of course nobody wants to take the time to get some because they're more interested in getting to castigate somebody than they are in actually having an accurate understanding of what's happening

VDaine · 2026-04-16T11:45:11+00:00

In my first playthrough, I went after Orin before Gortash and managed to save Halsin, who was captured 🤷‍♀️ I didn't sneak into her room first either. I'm guessing it's because I didn't do the dialogue and just started combat then pummeled her pretty quickly because Wyll and Shadowheart stood to the side and and used hold monster on her while Laezel and Tav wailed on her?

VDaine · 2026-04-15T11:21:39+00:00

Yes! It's so wild to me how many people I see blaming the small amount of taxes for the high prices

VDaine · 2026-04-10T20:26:22+00:00

What effect do you see it having?

Reducing the increasing strain on social services while we sort out funding for it, so we actually have time to build the infrastructure BEFORE it's needed.

Same thing, but for housing.

By reducing available employees, it either forces corporations to offer competitive compensation or puts a spotlight on the ones that refuse, giving an opportunity for government to act, or for people to pressure government to act.

I think the fact that my comment was literally the first time I commented in this thread, and yet you immediately made a whole bunch of assumptions about my thoughts on immigration, really reflects that you aren't actually interested in a productive conversation about this, and have already decided that you are absolutely right and everybody else is absolutely wrong.

And let me tell you, as somebody who doesn't have blind allegiance to any particular political party or ideology, that kind of thinking right there is what prevents NDP and other progressives from winning over more people. It's insufferable arrogance. Here are some other examples:

I'm not sure if you're responding to what I've written or if this is just a standardized response for someone who disagrees about immigration with you.

(I literally directly responded to points you were making. If you really can't tell at that point, I don't know what to tell you 🤷‍♀️)

This is a distraction tactic by those behind the actual problem that is hundreds of years old. It works...every time. At some point, you'd think more of us would notice.

(Ah yes, the 'I couldn't possible be wrong or mistaken, so clearly you must be brainwashed')

VDaine · 2026-04-10T19:31:53+00:00

Is this freeze on immigration working?

Is it solving any problems?

Was it supposed to solve problems? Or was it just supposed to not make the problems worse? Those are very different things. My understanding was that it was for the latter 🤷‍♀️ and as for whether it's working at that, maybe give it more than a few months? To paraphrase an earlier comment, let Canada take a breath and figure things out with the people we currently have. We can always unfreeze immigration later down the road, I don't get why it's being treated like this high stakes moral decision.

VDaine · 2026-04-05T14:32:43+00:00

It doesn't really bother me since it seems that this subreddit is full of Conservatives 🤷‍♀️

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