Tag: public sector

5 signs your Prime Minister doesn’t like public servants

Published June 16, 2014

Stephen Harper wants public servants to know he cares. That’s the point of this week’s National Public Service Week to celebrate those “Proudly Serving Canadians.“ But public servants aren’t buying it. In fact, they’re boycotting the whole thing. Here are five things that put the boycott in context. 1. Job cuts = cuts to services Since 2010, Harper’s Conservatives have axed 19,000 […]

So much for those “overpaid public sector workers”

Published March 18, 2014

Treasury Board President Tony Clement often sounds like a broken record, taking shots at the public service whenever he can. If he’s not complaining about a “complete disconnect” between public sector and private sector compensation, Clement is talking about clawing back salaries of public servants. Clement must have been disappointed, then, when his office was handed a […]

The politics of muzzling government scientists

Published October 22, 2013

It isn’t easy being a scientist for the federal government these days. That’s the clear message from new research released by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC). The union commissioned Environics Canada to “gauge the scale and impact of ‘muzzling’ and political interference among federal scientists.” Over 15,000 were invited to […]

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