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For some reason I initially read that as un-ionized electrician, lol. Anyway, ya, that's really stupid. I bet it cost a fortune for the amount of work it took too, am I right?
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Yep, a couple hundred dollars.
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I'd be pretty pissed to if i worked and accumulated a years worth of sick day and someone told me I couldn't have them anymore.
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This is one of the things that pisses me off. A sick day is for in case you are sick, not to allow you an early retirement.
And it makes perfect sense that nobody should be able to accumulate sick days anywhere. I don't think tax payers should have to pay a city worker to sit around on his porch and drink beer.
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Toronto smells like ass, I work at a swimming pool on Finch, but the strikers aren't incredibly wrong, one of their issues is keeping sick days they have banked.
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Who gets to do that? That's ridiculous! The ability to "bank" your sick days and then possibly retire years early and "cash" those banked days for hundreds of thousands of dollars is one of the most unreasonable demands I've ever heard of.
Again, only union employees would ever demand something so ridiculous. It seems more and more that union employees think they have jobs for life (regardless of performance)... it makes me sick, especially with the unemployment the way it is right now.
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I'd also like to add: I'm not sure what progress has been made, but unless the situation has changed without my knowledge, our TA's could be going on strike this year.
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I'd also like to add: I'm not sure what progress has been made, but unless the situation has changed without my knowledge, our TA's could be going on strike this year.
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I remember hearing that too; they said around January 2010, right?
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I remember hearing that too; they said around January 2010, right?
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If I'm not mistaken, the contract is up at the end of August.
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If I'm not mistaken, the contract is up at the end of August.
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Oh, even worse then, lol. :(
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This is one of the things that pisses me off. A sick day is for in case you are sick, not to allow you an early retirement.
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Dude I totally understand that but if they don't want people to accumulate them they should have never allowed it. They could have implemented some sort of rule that allows them to keep their sick days for a certain time period. I dont think its fair that they get early retirement either but my point is that if they made that mistake of letting people build them up, let those people keep it and discontinue it for the future. |
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Dude I totally understand that but if they don't want people to accumulate them they should have never allowed it. They could have implemented some sort of rule that allows them to keep their sick days for a certain time period. I dont think its fair that they get early retirement either but my point is that if they made that mistake of letting people build them up, let those people keep it and discontinue it for the future.
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I'm sure that this option has come up at the bargaining table, but we can't really say much about it since speculation is useless anyways.
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They voted yesterday. They're also voting today and I believe Monday (don't quote me on that) for a strike. I don't know all of the people who'd be involved. However, if McMaster does go on strike it'll be on September 1st and some services include Career Services, Financial Aid, Registrar's Office. Oh unions and McMaster why can't you just get along
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That's actually a different one than I was referring to. I wasn't sure what the vote was (I thought they voted on Thursday?) so I hadn't mentioned this one.
The one I am thinking of does specifically refer to our educators, though I'm not sure at which level.
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I'd also like to add: I'm not sure what progress has been made, but unless the situation has changed without my knowledge, our TA's could be going on strike this year.
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Aha! Someone knows what I'm talking about...
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I dont think its fair that they get early retirement either but my point is that if they made that mistake of letting people build them up, let those people keep it and discontinue it for the future.
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I don't think they ever had bankable sick days though; it's something they're arguing for this time. I think it's good to keep sick days around because some people do genuinely get sick or get injured. You should have to present some proof though that you do really need the sick days.
The way they want it now, they might as well just call it early retirement days; since you don't actually need to be sick. Just stupid...
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I don't think they ever had bankable sick days though; it's something they're arguing for this time. I think it's good to keep sick days around because some people do genuinely get sick or get injured. You should have to present some proof though that you do really need the sick days.
The way they want it now, they might as well just call it early retirement days; since you don't actually need to be sick. Just stupid...
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No, they do have bankable sick days currently... the city wants them to give it up.
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No, they do have bankable sick days currently... the city wants them to give it up.
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Really? How the hell did they get that to begin with...
Does anyone else have bankable sick days?
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If I'm not mistaken, the contract is up at the end of August.
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Oh, even worse then, lol. :(
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That's actually a different one than I was referring to. I wasn't sure what the vote was (I thought they voted on Thursday?) so I hadn't mentioned this one.
The one I am thinking of does specifically refer to our educators, though I'm not sure at which level.
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