Just to save some time... There will be a bunch of posts from union guys saying "YEAH - stick to your guns! Go brothers!"
There will also be a bunch of posts from non-union guys saying "in this economy you are lucky to have a job so shut up"
Both will be 100% sure they are right and no one will change thier mind.
You can thank me later for the hours of your time I just saved. :-)

Oh too funny interceptor but right on !

I figure what ever is good enough for the politicians should be good enough for the common folk. So at the provincial level, over 4 years, the average MLA got a 34% pay increase. Well give that to everyone.

The MLA's have a Cost Of Living Allowance adjusted pension plan, give that to everyone. ( Unionized and non-Unionized ).

What in general is good enough for them, we all should be getting.

Better yet, give both the government, and union employees the kind of pension fund you get in the private sector. Save you own money with RRSPs if you want to retire on more than old age pension!

As a taxpayer, I think this would be a great idea, after all, why should you qualify for a lavish pension plan just because you work for the government?

"why should you qualify for a lavish pension plan just because you work for the government".......

Because I'm paying for it that's why. Do you think you can get a govt job and then still get the same net paycheque as someone working in the private sector? The answer is NO. Every paycheque I get has a chunk going to the pension plan. That's in addition to regular CPP deductions.

Oh and another thing, Vdesign you should check at what the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty is doing right now. He's taking a look at a pension option for the private sector. I believe it would give people the option of contributing to a pension plan just like us govt workers.

Granted when you look at a politician's pension plan it's a pretty sweet deal. But then again, how many people want to sign up to be bashed by the public. I think it's a pretty thankless job.

Quesnel has a very beautiful downtown (far nicer than PG's), homes on the 3-lakes 10-minutes drive from downtown, and essentially everything that PG has for services. What Quesnel doesn't have is PG style revenue obligations to a myriad of projects that require an ever increasing amount of property taxes to pay for it all.

I think if Quesnel can hold the line and keep their cost down, then from an economic competitive position of strength they will attract all the big projects PG would have attracted... and in 50-years Quesnel very well could surpass PG as BC's northern economic hub. Its situations like this that will determine if they are successful or not IMO....

Wonder what big projects they would attract??? Maybe they could expand their Airport.

Rabble rabble rabble!

I hate unions, rabble rabble rabble!

Hey, doesn't anyone else find it odd this story only asked the city why the union rejected the offer? It sure does the city a favour, because now everyone who read this story will think it's only about the money because that's what the city said.

83.5% of their workforce would obviously rather work without a contract or risk walking a picket line for a little better pay, right?

Sorry, I didn't mean to get out of line.

Rabble rabble rabble! I hate unions!

If you were a corporation looking to set up a new mill and you had to look at the potential tax liability of a city like Quesnel verses a city like PG, then one would think all else considered they would locate where they will have the lesser of future tax liabilities... ditto for say a retiree looking for a place with a stable tax rate for retirement (surely that's not going to be PG).

rabble rabble rabble... government employee entitlements... rabble rabble rabble... hold you up from your essential services to get their way... rabble rabble rabble... get far more than they ever could in the private sector because the public can just tax more to the captive home owner to pay for it... rabble rabble rabble.

when was the last time the employees have had a pay raise .... this story is lacking alot of information .....

if the workers have been frozen for the past couple of years .... since then they have increases due to Carbon Tax, HST, Income tax , probally property tax, cost of living in general ... everything goes up but wages it seems

"Maybe they could expand their airport"...hehehe...good one Palopu!

From Mondays article on OP250...

“The last five-year contract saw a 15.5 percent increase when the Consumer Price Index increased by 6.5 percent."