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Gambit: Gambit see your bet and raise it, because the cards always be in my favor.
Ichigo: What even *are* you?!
Kenpachi: Some say my mother was a train. Some say that I'm a rejected Godzilla monster too strong for the series canon. But everyone says: I'M THE KEEEEENPACHIIIIII!!!!
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Was going to post the image but it has a curse word in it: C is for Cease and Desist
Original join date: 11/23/2004
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Happy Birthday, Jcogginsa. ^_^
Job security isn't a concern. We're public servants, we're in a legal strike position, and there's more than 150K of us that might be walking off. It's just...ugh. No pay, strike, etc. Not the best situation for anyone.
But we've been screwed over (like everyone else) for years with 'cost of living adjustments' to our pay that are much, much lower than the actual rise in cost of living (most often we get a 1 to 1.5% yearly cost of living adjustment when the CoL has risen by 2.5-3.5%...over 20 years, this makes a difference, especially to people who are on the lower end of the salaries). This has been happening since the last strike, more than 20 years ago. And with inflation being what it is, and the government offering a ridiculous cost of living adjustment in our new contract, and then balking at ANY negotiation - they refused to budge, asked for arbitration themselves, and when the arbiters told them 'no, you need to give concessions, union is being reasonable here' they walked from the table, this is their usual gameplan - the Union decided it had enough. Especially since it's tax season, and the Canadian Revenue Agency workers have also had enough and want to walk off (and are in a legal position to do so).
So...biggest strike in many decades is lining up right now, and for a change the average citizen isn't complaining about 'privileged fedgov workers' because EVERYONE has realized (amazingly) that we're all getting screwed. <-- there is still complaining, but it's not nearly as omnipresent as it has been in the past.
Negotiations are ongoing, with Treasury Board actually making concessions (they scrambled back to the table once we started the strike vote), but there's still a decent chance of striking.
Why are we here?
"Superboy Prime (the yelling guy if he needs clarification)..." - Postmania
"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
Happy birth Jcogg!
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
-Stephen McCranie
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Gambit: Gambit see your bet and raise it, because the cards always be in my favor.