The discussion on Gormley has turned toward the role of unions....now we're getting somewhere.
Update: Barring any changes, I'll be talking about government absenteeism on Charles Adlers's national show at around 2:40 Mountain time.
Friday, October 14, 2005
Sask: Gormley on absenteeism
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4 comments:
Your spinning your numbers, Dave. You have not even looked into whether there is an overall increase in illness, province wide, or compared it to any other business/government. Is it not commendable that the majority of Sask gov't and crown corp. employees do not use 40% of there sick days.
I think all problems in Saskatchewan can be traced back to unions. Hell, even labour problems in Alberta can be traced back to a Saskatchewan union. Yesterday in Brooks, AB, at a labour dispute between Tyson foods and their so-called "union" (although I don't consider a union to be in place if only 30% of the workers want it) however, it is the Saskatchewan supporters who showed up that caused the problems.
I agree, unions are like slinky's, they're completely pointless, but they sure are fun to push down a flight of stairs.
as far as sick days go, perhaps some of the increase is due to a public service that is getting older, a large percentage of employees are hitting that 45 -55 age bracket where health problems show up, and they are serious health problems that require more than 1 or 2 days sick leave to fix, ie heart surgery, secondly a reduction in the civil service and an increase in workloads will increase the use of stress leave.
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