(Niagara At Large is posting the following November 24 media release from the Ontario Conservative Party for your information.)
NEWS:
QUEEN’S PARK — Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak said Dalton McGuinty’s voluntary wage freeze has failed everyone except the union bosses that helped him get re-elected. Hudak renewed his call for a mandatory, legislated wage freeze that will save the government up to $2 billion over just two years.
Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak
Dalton McGuinty implemented a two-year voluntary wage freeze for public sector workers in March 2010. While the government’s 300,000 non-unionized workers had no choice but to comply, arbitrators and the union bosses representing 700,000 unionized workers have thumbed their noses at the wage freeze – continuing to accept pay raises and bonuses. Since the voluntary freeze was put in place, thousands of non-unionized workers have joined unions to circumvent Dalton McGuinty’s failed wage freeze.
Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Caucus are calling for a mandatory, legislated wage freeze across the public sector that cannot be circumvented or ignored. Freezing wages across the board will provide up to $2 billion in savings at a time when the McGuinty government is running a growing $16-billion deficit.
QUOTES:
“Dalton McGuinty’s voluntary wage freeze has failed to hold the line on pay raises for unionized employees. The result has been the largest union drive since the Great Depression.”
–Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader
“Dalton McGuinty created a system of winners and losers throughout the public sector with his failed wage freeze. It’s not right that the non-unionized worker would get his pay frozen only to see his unionized co-worker get a raise. Ontario needs a mandatory wage freeze, across the board, that treats everyone the same.”
–Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader
QUICK FACTS:
- Between November 2010 and October 2011 Ontario Public Service Employees Union’s Hospital Professionals Division has increased by 3,000 members. (OPSEU)
- Labour costs account for the majority of the Ontario government’s program spending budget. (Ministry of Finance)
- Ontario government employees already earn 27% more than their private sector counterparts doing the same job. (Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, Wage Watch)
- Public sector wage agreements have been 50% more generous under Dalton McGuinty than they were under the previous three Premiers. (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
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Since people are throwing around statistics, here’s another one:
The C.I. T (Corporate Income Tax) fell from 29% to 15% since the year 2000. Reduced corporate tax rates represent many billions of dollars that could otherwise have been spent more productively, i.e on health care etc.
Corporate greed does not serve the interests of the 99%.
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YADA YADA We keep electing these idiots quityerbellyaching
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The CEO of RBC was paid $44,000,000 in 2007. An RBC teller in the same year was paid $30,000. If that teller doesn’t have a union, she should have one.
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I know Dalton McGuinty has not done anything that he has said he would do, including my numerous emails to him telling him they should be doing an investigation on the Fort Erie bingos and slot money that is allocated to this town for hosting the casino.
I have also pointed out to him that the Fort Erie Racetrack is being run in a haphazard way and in my opinion needs to be audited before any more of our taxpayers’ money is sent their way.
There are too many of the chosen few getting rich in this town for my liking and there should be someone looking into the problems or perceived problems, the local police will not look into the millions that have been stolen, the town councils both past and present will not look into it so the province must get off their rears and do something.
As for that other guy, he may as well leave because he’s not a leader and he just lost an election because nobody that I know voted for him because they all know some of his history.
And poor Andrea I think she would have had a fighting chance if she would have been more careful in the selection of her riding candidates.
So what are we to do? Stay with the devil we know or the devil we don’t, obviously the people of this province chose the former.
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Nobody is worth $44 million. I don’t care what they do, or who they are. As Mark stated, we are finding the corporate sector gaining, with everybody else losing. Where do people think our deficits come from? When we are taking in less revenue, we definitely have less money for everything else …
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