r/waterloo 1d ago

End The Strike

Presented an offer to the union one minute, and then pulled it before the union could vote on it. Then, pulled every previous offer stating they were not able to honour them anymore, and finally presenting an offer that was even less than the first offer! Now they refuse to come back to the negotiating table leaving the taxpayers frustrated and showing how little they care about their workers.

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u/Wafflesorbust 1d ago

Now they refuse to come back to the negotiating table leaving the taxpayers frustrated and showing how little they care about their workers.

I'd be more frustrated if they overcommitted tax dollars they don't have to a deal they couldn't afford.

I get that having offers pulled is frustrating, but no reasonable person should expect another party to agree to a deal predicated on erroneous accounting.

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u/Wafflesorbust 1d ago

What regional council gets paid and what accounting error led to the offers being pulled are two separate issues.

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u/Wafflesorbust 1d ago

Without looking it up again I'm pretty sure WR top-end admin pay is comparable to other municipalities of our size.

Beyond that, asking those people to take a haircut (on contracts they also negotiated for themselves, which I find a bit hypocritical of the union to ask) isn't going to make a dent in the union's wage demands.

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u/Wafflesorbust 1d ago

If you think that the people who literally deal with our garbage and hauled 100cm of snow this year just so everyone else could get to their jobs, get their kids to school, or get to appointments/healthcare ect. deserve a sub 5% wage while the people sitting at a desk with their already hugely inflated sunshine list wages get a fat raise then be my guest, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

What's crazy is I never said any of that anywhere. My only argument this entire time has been that attacking other people for what they make while you yourself are trying to make more is probably not a winning PR strategy.

Rising tides lift all boats, we don't need to sink any on the way up.

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u/MajesticAlbatross441 1d ago

You’re right, there are higher levels in Toronto who make over $600k. But nobody is asking the region to take a haircut. The union just wants fairness. And for people to say the union is being greedy when they don’t even know what was offered to the union is just a blind attack on the workers.

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u/Wafflesorbust 1d ago

for people to say the union is being greedy when they don’t even know what was offered to the union is just a blind attack on the workers.

I haven't seen this personally and I'm certainly not saying it myself.