Possible Strike Action by IRCC employees starting mid-April

[747-captain]

It seems IRCC find a way to function regardless of strike. If the strike goes one more week then they will find more ways to function.

Entirely depends on the OFFICE. I haven’t seen any activity from Scarborough SCR

 

[LeaveItGold]

Any one here Kitchener office?

 

[SirCumsALot]

Another union's response to TBS president

https://pipsc.ca/about/office-of-the-president/collective-bargaining/statement-pipsc-president-jennifer-carr-in

Great response. Calling them out and asking them to actually commit instead of the usual empty promises. Likely that means the strikes will go on longer though

 

[Limerick]

Any one here Kitchener office?

Kitchener office ... tracker showing oath on may 9th but no email yet

 

[senhari2005]

Kitchener office ... tracker showing oath on may 9th but no email yet

can you please share when this update happened?

 

[firstax]

Never said I have a problem with expressing frustration. But its one thing expressing frustration and quite another thing when its done in such an ignorant way.

Ignorant? Lmao. Did anyone in this entire forum get a 9 percent raise? Did anyone get to keep their jobs while staying home and get paid full salaries and benefits for 2 years. Sorry we - the non government workers - find it hard to sympathize with overpaid inefficient persons that are demanding for more.

Let's look at an example of work at home. Let's compare the speed of processing of certificates of zoom oaths versus in person oaths. Now tell me you don't get such delays when workmates are all over the place in their couches

 

[SirCumsALot]

Ignorant? Lmao. Did anyone in this entire forum get a 9 percent raise? Did anyone get to keep their jobs while staying home and get paid full salaries and benefits for 2 years. Sorry we - the non government workers - find it hard to sympathize with overpaid inefficient persons that are demanding for more.

Let's look at an example of work at home. Let's compare the speed of processing of certificates of zoom oaths versus in person oaths. Now tell me you don't get such delays when workmates are all over the place in their couches

Again, if you did not get a 9% raise, so no one else should? If you cannot work from home, no one else should? And you think if you fight for an increase you should be blamed for it?
And for people who got laid off during pandemic, who processed their CERB?
You keep saying they are overpaid, lazy etc. When every single research and heck even the federal govt. data says the opposite.
So yes these are ignorant views because they are coming out of frustration and biases. And again, nothing wrong with that too because we cant know everything right?

Everyone's frustrated with the delays but instead of trying to hold the leaders responsible, the blame has to fall on workers instead who have to work with the tools they are given.

During the pandemic, I had to suffer too. I had to fight and threaten the company for my vacation accrual when I was laid off(because I didnt get to take a single day off). And along with me were also 3 guys who made 5x more than me who weren't paid. I didn't go to them and say "why are you arguing you earned nearly 200k?"

 

[firstax]

Again, if you did not get a 9% raise, so no one else should? If you cannot work from home, no one else should? And you think if you fight for an increase you should be blamed for it?
And for people who got laid off during pandemic, who processed their CERB?
You keep saying they are overpaid, lazy etc. When every single research and heck even the federal govt. data says the opposite.
So yes these are ignorant views because they are coming out of frustration and biases. And again, nothing wrong with that too because we cant know everything right?

Everyone's frustrated with the delays but instead of trying to hold the leaders responsible, the blame has to fall on workers instead who have to work with the tools they are given.

During the pandemic, I had to suffer too. I had to fight and threaten the company for my vacation accrual when I was laid off(because I didnt get to take a single day off). And along with me were also 3 guys who made 5x more than me who weren't paid. I didn't go to them and say "why are you arguing you earned nearly 200k?"

I bet you it takes maybe 3 clicks of the mouse to process CERB. They clearly were not verifying anything as they claimed that they wanted to get money into tax payers hands asap.

Yes it's a fact that unionized government workers are very inefficient. Look all all the backlogs in almost every immigration stream and even passports. People were lining up at 4 am in the cold and wasting their whole day to apply for passports while overpaid staff sat home watching cat videos. Government had to hire thousands more staff and contract workers just to process passports because the ones they had want to stay home lol.
I just want people to get what they paid for. Lots of people are being held hostage because slackers want to stay home. If virtual work was better than in person why does the union want workers to picket in person?

 

[argo1990]

Don

Again, if you did not get a 9% raise, so no one else should? If you cannot work from home, no one else should? And you think if you fight for an increase you should be blamed for it?
And for people who got laid off during pandemic, who processed their CERB?
You keep saying they are overpaid, lazy etc. When every single research and heck even the federal govt. data says the opposite.
So yes these are ignorant views because they are coming out of frustration and biases. And again, nothing wrong with that too because we cant know everything right?

Everyone's frustrated with the delays but instead of trying to hold the leaders responsible, the blame has to fall on workers instead who have to work with the tools they are given.

During the pandemic, I had to suffer too. I had to fight and threaten the company for my vacation accrual when I was laid off(because I didnt get to take a single day off). And along with me were also 3 guys who made 5x more than me who weren't paid. I didn't go to them and say "why are you arguing you earned nearly 200k?"

Don't you think these union clowns already have a loud voice to talk about their BS demands? I don't see the point of you advocating these thieves...

 

[rainydayincanada]

When you lack arguments based on facts and statistics you resort to repeating lies and name calling.

 

[Semeg]

Please can some share the link to get GCMS notes thanks

 

[krishere1982]

Again, if you did not get a 9% raise, so no one else should? If you cannot work from home, no one else should? And you think if you fight for an increase you should be blamed for it?
And for people who got laid off during pandemic, who processed their CERB?
You keep saying they are overpaid, lazy etc. When every single research and heck even the federal govt. data says the opposite.
So yes these are ignorant views because they are coming out of frustration and biases. And again, nothing wrong with that too because we cant know everything right?

Everyone's frustrated with the delays but instead of trying to hold the leaders responsible, the blame has to fall on workers instead who have to work with the tools they are given.

During the pandemic, I had to suffer too. I had to fight and threaten the company for my vacation accrual when I was laid off(because I didnt get to take a single day off). And along with me were also 3 guys who made 5x more than me who weren't paid. I didn't go to them and say "why are you arguing you earned nearly 200k?"

I don't think the public workers should get a 9% raise because the taxes I pay goes towards paying their salaries. IRCC is not transparent in their operations and is inefficient overall. If there were no cases like that of johnjkjk's and like those who had to file a mandamus to get some progress in their applications ever, then I will probably be in favor of the raise they are demanding.

If these workers were getting paid so low and their worklife was so miserable, why didn't they quit and find jobs in the private sector? They didn't because when compared to the private sector jobs the public sector jobs are more secure and the benefits including pension are better.

 

[koiwa528]

any updated regarding the strike?

 

[sumeet169]

any updated regarding the strike?

Its been all quite since yesterday

 

[zabrodov]

I don't think the public workers should get a 9% raise because the taxes I pay goes towards paying their salaries. IRCC is not transparent in their operations and is inefficient overall. If there were no cases like that of johnjkjk's and like those who had to file a mandamus to get some progress in their applications ever, then I will probably be in favor of the raise they are demanding.

If these workers were getting paid so low and their worklife was so miserable, why didn't they quit and find jobs in the private sector? They didn't because when compared to the private sector jobs the public sector jobs are more secure and the benefits including pension are better.

Look at it from a different perspective: what if not many people are eager to even apply for these jobs, then IRCC struggles with attracting the right talent and has to deal with the shortage of resources? As the result, your application is being processed forever. Not saying that this is necessarily the case, but it might be.

People always assume that IRCC (for example) is fully staffed and its employees have all the power to deal with a case from the beginning to an end. People assume that IRCC employees do not depend on other departments and agencies and purposely delay the processing because they just feel like it. What if there is just not enough people to deal with the influx of cases? What if other departments that provide information necessary to move the case along, are also short-staffed?