1.5% increases is more. Rollbacks would be less and less. Try it some time.

Over $1Billion (yes – BILLION) a year off of the Canadian taxpayers may not be civil service, but it sure ‘aint private like the rest of us.

Bottom line – the Canadian public has just about had it with the CBC elite and their special interest programming. Another trip to the picket line would be the last straw. Even the most militant socialist unionists understand this.

CBC has locked out employees last the two time folks have held up picket signs at the CBC.

Some how us folks working for Canadians seem to wind up with less and less not more and more.

CBC is not part of the civil service.

Happy New Year
Mike

(Monk…somewhere in the U.A.E)

Monk and Glad’s location will be revealed shortly…. after my smoke break, coffee break and lunch break

Please Stand by…

They dodge every bullet while wasting time and insulting people.

I, too, am cautiously optomistic but am still am extremely wary of Mgm’t. Hope Dan et. al. are looking for loopholes with an electron microscope.

How much time has been wasted on PMSD? Who, aside for those in senior positions has ever seen any effect from the system other than being stressed out by making blind promises that end up being completely dependent on forces outside your control? I’m lucky, I have a fairly competent (if overly large) Managemt structure directly above me. If PMSD was it….we’d be doomed.

IT review? LOL, bring it on…but who will do the eval? The PE descriptions were a joke and written by people on both sides that just don’t have any idea about what IT does. This may be due to the massive proportion of IT personnel being in APS or contract. I admit to feeling sorry seing them remote connect to their work until 2am with no OT or turnaround (or recognition of any sort). I’d rather an APS person in-house do the CMG IT eval than any outside consutant.

I also find it very sadly ironic that the parental benefit thing is given so much ink. It really is a lost leader, affects very few, and is like kissing babies during an election. I’d like to know if other forms of leave due to work-related disablement will be treated with the same equanimity. I want to see the full document.

(I should mention that I have had to take leave and was treated fairily by all parties both during my leave and after my return…I owe a lot to CMG and HR fo that)

Oh, and Glad? I wouldn’t worry about the IP trace too much…Unless there is a CBC Black-Ops division, it would likely be done by those overworked APS people in IT and I don’t think their Management structure has the time or organization to put that in the SLA.

If they are hiring permanents after I am hired on a contract, should I be applying?

I’m glad that we were able to settle before the contract expired. Not like the CBC I know so it has me thinking what’s in it for them?

Hopefully this is a new way the CBC wants to do business with its employee’s instead of how Richard Stursberg sent a memo to staff out at the start of the last lock out on “how the CBC had no choice but to lock out its employees”.
I wonder if Richard Stursberg is only getting 1.5% increases over the next 5 years? If he is I’m sure his bonus cheques, which the CBC probably calls, incentive performance transfer, will be hefty

PMSD has been a real drain on valuable time and effort. Can’t we just put this to bed and deal with more pressing issues than a tool your manger uses as a switch?

WFA the latest non threatening acronym for layoffs.

More committee’s to deal with work life balance?
CBC talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.
A full lunch or break what’s that?
Arrive 10 minutes late due to transit way issues and the manager is on your back
As for the excessive work load how is it the employee’s issue? The employee points the workload out the manager and she says she’ll look into it. Then gets back saying workload it is in line with corporation policy, cites numerous examples from small CBC locations, and then wants to know why you’re not a team player?
Also she writes that up in your PMSD

Shift changes are constant and are there to save $$$ and the CBC won’t change the way they do business.

Sure some folks never have their shift changed but some the constant changes to some of our schedules, by fellow CMG members, is like playing ping pong.

I really do hope I’ve erred with my comments and CBC has turned over a new leaf.

Wonder if the suits are already trying to track my IP address?