Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal bureaucrats, who weathered the pandemic in comfort, are now asking for a 14 per cent pay raise
Tag: Unions
Bureaucracy may be necessary, but it is never harmless
Reading Time: 4 minutes There is nothing that bureaucracy cannot make worse
The public/private compensation gap is soaring in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Government leaders must begin to stand up against union demands, through legislation if necessary
Should small business form a union?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Its time for the labour movement to turn its attention to those hard-working Canadians in the small business sector
The Alberta government is not taking too little from taxpayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead of reaching deeper into their pockets, it’s time for Alberta’s politicians to start living within taxpayers’ means.
Alberta taxpayers should be complaining, not union bosses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Union bosses need a reminder that every government-employee paycheque ultimately comes from taxpayers
Memories of Walter Reuther, an American labour giant
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuther had his finger in everything from labour negotiations to legislation to civil rights to election campaigns
At 90, Thomas Sowell remains one of a kind
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a libertarian conservative, he’s a minority in the economics profession. Stir in the fact that he’s Black and you get a rare bird indeed
Alberta is right to expand its employee sunshine list
Reading Time: 3 minutes The single biggest day-to-day expense for the Alberta government is labour costs
Unions fail to measure up in a time of economic crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes By reducing business profits, unionization ultimately makes workers worse off, diminishing employment and wages