Potential Disaster for Liberals and The Conservatives: The Public Service Alliance of Canada preparing for potential Post-election strike – September 9, 2019,
I won’t waste too much time on this post, because the reality is this strategy by The Public Service Alliance of Canada which has over 180,000 members is to put whoever is currently in office or about to be in office in a very horrible economic position beginning in 2020. The administrative employees of The Public Service Alliance of Canada that account for roughly half of the union’s members want more money? What do they want? Well, I don’t know all of the specific details, but below is an example based on what I read on CityNews.ca website, that I link to at the bottom of this post.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada wants annual wage increases that meet or exceed inflation, improved work-life balance — and equitable monetary compensation for the Phoenix nightmare,”
Work-life balance huh? Wages that keep up with inflation eh! Now, for most people that have REAL jobs in the Private Sector sector, you might have a hard time understanding what the Phoenix pay system is. Well, I scoured the net to find coherent wording to give people a break-down, however, in the end, Wikipedia as of today’s date provides an easier to read post.
The Phoenix pay system is a payroll processing system for Canadian federal government employees, run by Public Services and Procurement Canada. The Public Service Pay Centre is located in Miramichi, New Brunswick. It was introduced as part of then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Transformation of Pay Administration Initiative, intended to replace Canada’s 40-year old system with a new, cost-saving “automated, off-the-shelf commercial system.” Phoenix has caused pay problems to over 50 percent of the federal government’s 290,000 public servants through underpayments, over-payments, and non-payments.
The Standing Senate Committee on National Finance, chaired by Senator Percy Mockler, investigated the Phoenix Pay system and submitted their report, “The Phoenix Pay Problem: Working Towards a Solution” on July 31, 2018, in which they called Phoenix a failure and an “international embarrassment”. Instead of saving $70 million a year as planned, the report said that the cost to taxpayers to fix Phoenix’s problems could be up to $2.2 billion by 2023.
Politically do I lean towards the Right? Of course, I do, but fair is fair, I call it as the information was presented to me. This problem stems from Stephen Harper’s government and basically Trudeau’s government hasn’t done anything about The Phoenix pay system, but the real question to ask is why?
Big Government and the Phoenix pay system
The idea behind the Phoenix pay system was to save money and centralize government payments, the problem, however, is derived by Canada’s ever-growing government and the Phoenix pay system properly calculating Thousands of newly created job with money Canada doesn’t really have. If you have a Quickbooks account as an example, it’s common knowledge that you don’t want to pay your employees money that you don’t have.
You can’t automate government employees payrolls because these AI-based systems can not pay money that really isn’t available. With the little knowledge, I know about developing software, if the people at the top aren’t properly adding in the right amount of digits into the Phoenix pay system, the system will inevitably resort back to a default payment system and assume to make payouts instead of making payrolls!😂 Government has no balance sheets as far as I’m concerned, there’s no Accrual Accounting going on in the federal government 😂, it’s money printing.
Listen to the Public Sector worker demands, namely this “wage increases that meet or exceed inflation”😂. We’re talking about public servants requesting this buffoonery. These government workers have no competition, most of them can’t be fired, if you’re wondering why life is so expensive in Canada, never, ever under-estimate the power of government workers having “wage increases that meet or exceed inflation”. First question you ask is what happens if the Canadian economy deflates? Do these Government employees have wages that deflate? Because in the private Sector, because Canada has minimum wage laws, deflating wages equates to a Private Company going bankrupt. If government workers pay can’t deflate, will the Canadian Federal Government go bankrupt?
Its pure buffoonery, public sector unions is buffoonery at the highest level and well, I’m learning not to care, I’ll I’m trying to warn Canadians is that there’s a tipping point, I challenge you if you’re Canadian to travel the world and try using Canadian currency, don’t assume the Canadian and American currencies are on the same level. The market has a lot to say about the Canadian dollar and as the cost of living continues to rise in favor of a Government worker “wage increases that meet or exceed inflation” with no mention of deflation, you’ll start to understand the currency crisis that plague Argentina, many parts of Europe that made many of ancestors move to Canada, the currency crisis in Brazil, The EU.
The U.S currency gets bailed out from a crisis because of the military safety America provides for the world, countries like Canada, Australia, Iceland we need to be fiscally responsible, our public sector has to be mindful of the money it spends. I get the whole workers strike thing, but I’d like to remind The Public Service Alliance of Canada that Canada is reaching a critical point, as a matter of fact, the world is reaching a critical point and old ideas may soon be challenged. From my standpoint as it stands now a large segment of the Canada population is marching toward the wrong side of history.
Federal government walks away from bargaining, says union, prompting strike talk | citynews.ca
Interesting times ahead!