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Some public sector workplaces still have actually ended collective contracts. I have actually computed wage boosts at 0% in years not covered by a current collective agreement, which reduces the average for those years. 20190.37% 20200.00% 20210.02% 20220.09% 20232.62% 20241.63% 20251.61% Things have actually not been great for post-secondary workers throughout the last 7 years of wage boosts.

20190.37% 2.20% 20200.00% -0.50% 20210.02% 3.30% 20220.09% 6.30% 20232.62% 4.30% 20241.63% 3.00% 20251.61% 1.50% As we can see, the average wage increase for postsecondary cumulative bargaining contracts has actually been below the rate of inflation in nearly every April since the UCP took power, besides in 2020, when we had quick deflation, and 2025, where postsecondary wage development was barely greater than inflation.

Between April 2019 and April 2025, Alberta has seen a combined inflation boost of 19.1%. The postsecondary sector did not manage to hit even a 3rd of that quantity for wage boosts. Not just are we utilizing fewer employees in postsecondary than we must be, assuming we want to keep up with population growth, however also we're not paying them enough for them to catch up to the expense of living.

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Through legislative changes, job cuts, and reduced funding, the UCP government has methodically damaged labour securities, curbed union power, and constrained public sector growthleaving important services, such as postsecondary education, having a hard time to keep pace with population growth. Wage increases have lagged far behind inflation, wearing down real earnings and lessening workers' buying power.

We can't do it workplace by office. We should do it in uniformity with one another: unions supporting unions and economic sector workers supporting public sector workersand vice versa. A work environment of 35 workers going on strike for more than a 12% combined wage boost will not suffice to get this government to alter its unionbusting ideology.

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Improving the material conditions of the working class will just come from workers standing together in uniformity and requiring it. We didn't get the 40-hour work week since one local of one union negotiated it into their cumulative arrangement; we got it after numerous countless employees went on strike in May 1886 and required it.

We didn't get work insurance coverage since the government chose to be generous one day and offer it to us. It was because countless employees boarded boxcars in June 1935 to take a trip to Ottawa and demand it. About 4 years earlier, our then 13-year-old came home from school and asked me, "What class are we?" I wasn't sure what they were describing, so I inquired what they suggested.

They divide us based upon skin colour so we do not see they are lobbying federal governments to remove our rights. They divide us based on gender so we don't see them robbing us of our salaries to increase earnings. They divide us based upon sexual orientation so we don't see them turning full-time jobs into numerous part-time jobs.

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They divide us based on ethnicity so we do not see them exploiting low-cost labour to avoid paying us properly. They divide us because they understand if we're joined, we have all the power. My struggle isn't simply my struggle. Your struggle isn't simply your struggle. Public sector worker struggle isn't just a public sector employee struggle.

Clerical employee battle isn't simply a clerical worker battle. Blue collar employee battle isn't simply a blue collar employee struggle. Service worker battle isn't simply a service worker struggle. Our struggle is a shared battle. It is a class battle. When I stood with striking postal employees in 2018, it wasn't because I was a postal employee; it was due to the fact that their struggle is a class struggle.

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When I took part in the wildcat strike in front of Chinook Regional Healthcare Facility in 2020, it wasn't because I was a healthcare facility employee; it was because their battle is a class battle. When I stood with picketing Lethbridge nurses in 2021, it wasn't since I was a nurse; it was because their struggle is a class battle.

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When I signed up with the picket line of striking PSAC employees in 2023, it wasn't since I was a federal government worker; it was because their battle is a class battle. When I stood on the picket line of rail employees in 2024, it wasn't due to the fact that I was a rail employee; it was due to the fact that their battle is a class battle.