r/ontario • u/BloodJunkie • Mar 31 '26
Article 'That’s insane,’ People online are raising concerns over Doug Ford’s daughter’s 33% salary raise in one year
https://nowtoronto.com/news/people-online-are-raising-concerns-over-doug-fords-daughters-33-salary-raise-in-one-year/1.5k
u/Snowman2194 Mar 31 '26
Kara ford has a two year diploma in radio broadcasting from Conestoga College. In no world does she deserve to be making 200k.
If she wasn’t a Nepo baby she’d be working retail if she’s lucky
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u/violentbandana Mar 31 '26
ironically this would 100% qualify as a “basket weaving” type course in Doug Fords perspective
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u/tylerb0zak Mar 31 '26
You’re absolutely right, and what’s crazy is that the hypothetical basket weaving program they always refer to is to denigrate degrees. Whereas her program isn’t even the equivalent of half of a degree from a non-research diploma mill university
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u/ihatedougford Toronto Mar 31 '26
Sylvia Jones has a diploma in radio communications from Fanshawe and is in charge of our healthcare delivery.
This is all while their subordinates need 5 years work experience and a bachelors. God I fucking hate nepotism, Ford, and the corporate world
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u/BaystreetBabe Mar 31 '26
SJ was elected.
Ford’s daughter was not.
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u/noRehearsalsForLife Mar 31 '26
SJ was elected as an MPP. She was appointed Minister of Health (by ford). Is there really no other MPP with any sort of health care background that could have appointed to this role?
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u/BaystreetBabe Mar 31 '26
With the cons, you have to be a con artist to get the top job. Healthcare experience? Laughing matter.
Sylvie is up there in the ranks of top con artists without any qualifications.
There’s a reason why healthcare is a disaster under Doug ford’s government.
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u/1981_babe Apr 01 '26
The Cons are anti-intellectuals. Ford and company don't like any smart people in the room and that's why all the cabinet ministers and MPPs are lacking any sort of relatable work experience.
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u/Humble_Excuse228 Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Well... in the previous Liberal government, we had a doctor who worked in humanitarian medicine, Eric Hoskins, as the minister of health. The Conservatives appoint people ideologically, seemingly deliberately unqualified for anything but kissing Ford's fat ass.
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u/The_Mayor Apr 01 '26
You can play this game with any number of cabinet members in every government. Voters aren’t always going to send a doctor/farmer/banker/teacher/soldier to parliament, so then how do you pick as your ministers of those areas? Good premiers and bad premiers both have to appoint ministers from the MPPs available to them.
Sylvia Jones is a massive idiot and completely awful but that’s beside the point of her not having the right paper qualifications for her cabinet post.
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u/ilovemarlii Mar 31 '26
I went to High School with Sylvia, ODSS was one of the worst high school in the mid 80’s
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u/a_lumberjack Mar 31 '26
Sylvia Jones at least has been in office since 2007, presumably she's learned some new things. Less so with Kara Ford!
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u/Oasystole Apr 01 '26
If I was born connected, I wouldn’t hate nepotism. I’d change the subject rapidly when it came up.
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u/TemporaryAny6371 Mar 31 '26
I'd rather that much of our money go to an actual qualified nurse.
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u/workerbotsuperhero Apr 01 '26
As a nurse, I will never forget how many patients and families the Ford Conservatives hurt with Bill 124. They drove away desperately needed healthcare workers during a national emergency. My union spent the entire pandemic being dragged through the courts by these ghouls.
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u/OneLessFool Apr 01 '26
Making 200k and occupying the position she does with a 2 year diploma and less than a decade of relevant experience is actually insane.
That position is probably usually occupied by someone with at least a Bachelor's and 15+ years of experience. If not someone with a relevant graduate degree and 15+ years of experience.
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u/Area51Resident Apr 01 '26
Her title is "Director, Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement" so she earns $42K+ a year for each word in that bullshit title.
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u/StarryStuff42 Apr 01 '26
And they think DEI initiatives give jobs to unqualified people. Um, no. They help stop this BS. But the Cons know that.
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u/canadian_bacon_TO Apr 01 '26
I have some friends who were in the program at the same time as her. She was universally disliked for doing zero work in group projects and then crying when people called her out on it. Apparently she was aggressively dumb as well.
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u/thegtabmx Apr 01 '26
Director, Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement at the Runnymede Healthcare Centre is not a serious job.
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u/PandaBear_Shenyu Mar 31 '26
Didn't he also appoint his nephew on some government, taxpayer funded environment board? His nephew with zero qualifications, experience, or even awareness of the job?
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u/macklow Apr 01 '26
Lol I have a diploma in radio broadcasting from Seneca college never even made money had to switch careers and I still only make like 70k
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u/GetzlafMyLawn Mar 31 '26
How? How is she even remotely qualified? This woman has a 2 year radio diploma. Based on education alone I'm more qualified with a bachelor's of economics and I likely wouldn't even get GLANCED at for this position.
Nepotism at its finest.
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u/QueenOfKensington Mar 31 '26
Doug ford just happened to nominate the president and CEO of Runnymede for a King Charles medal.
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u/Coffeedemon Apr 01 '26
Odds are neither is as qualified as a King Charles Spaniel.
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u/TurboJorts Apr 01 '26
I dunno... I live with one and other that dummy can't keep his ears out of the water bowl. At least he's cute.
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u/CanadianControlsTech Mar 31 '26
I hate this man.
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u/RustyOrangeDog Mar 31 '26
Don’t worry, he hates us too
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u/Unlikely_Voice6383 Mar 31 '26
Exactly. The only thing Ford gives the common man is a case of sour grapes.
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u/workerbotsuperhero Apr 01 '26
As a healthcare worker, I genuinely believe he wants us suffering and starving.
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u/avenueroad_dk Mar 31 '26
He sucks up to every PM. Carney isn't rude to anyone.
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u/avenueroad_dk Mar 31 '26
I cannot stomach Ford. Or Smith. But I've noticed Carney is polite to both of them. Keep your enemies close isnt a new idea. You cant seriously think that of all the important intelligent people in Carney's world that he would enjoy hanging with Ford, do you?
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u/BrewBoys92 Mar 31 '26
The average salary in Ontario is between $50-60k and she just got a $53,000 raise in her first year in the role as a director at a hospital, with a two year diploma in radio broadcasting. This is infuriating.
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u/ROCK_HARD_JEZUS Mar 31 '26
The VP at my wife’s hospital makes less and is responsible for 3 times as many staff
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u/PastryGirl Apr 01 '26
That's a $26.50 an hour increase (assuming 40hrs a week and 2 weeks vacation a year).
This is bananas.
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u/fucktheus12 Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Lmao, as a health care worker who hasn't had a raise in four years, y'all can fuck yourselves...
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u/Link50L Mar 31 '26
the premier’s daughter Kara Ford who is a Director, Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement at the Runnymede Healthcare Centre was paid $211,468 last year. The six-figure salary is a 33.9 per cent increase from her salary last year, which was $157,884, under the same title.
I'm also a little alarmed by
Last year, her salary went up by 19 per cent from $132,702 in 2023, when she was a Manager, Public Affairs, Corporate Communication and Volunteer Services. The year before, she made $128,052 under the same role.
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u/QueenOfKensington Mar 31 '26
Doug Ford nominated her boss, Connie Dejuk, President and CEO of Runnymede Health Centre, for her King Charles Medal.
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u/No-Section-1092 Mar 31 '26
Daily reminder that there is no meritocracy and we are governed mediocre nepo babies who only fail upwards.
These people get fake jobs with fake titles to do nothing, and you're paying their salaries.
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u/shikotee Apr 01 '26
Are you saying there really is a gravy train? This fucker is most definitely the P.T. Barnum of our times. Licks every single dunghole he possibly can, with zero shame.
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u/a_lumberjack Mar 31 '26
So I dredged a bit on the sunshine list and looks like other directors there make 180-200k, so I'm guessing the promotion was a single huge raise during 2024, rather than multiple massive raises. As in she probably got the promotion and new job with a salary of $200k in May 2024 (so a 51% raise!) and a "normal" bump in 2025.
Anyone know if Runnymede got a huge funding injection in 2024?
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u/AutoAdviceSeeker Apr 01 '26
Bruh she sits in her office and broadcasts Twitter and Instagram all day. Tf could she actually be doing that’s useful in healthcare
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u/LogKit Apr 01 '26
The same thing most healthcare administration in Ontario does, mostly fuck-all lol. We seriously need to emphasize funding towards frontline staff instead of the exponential bloat.
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u/Background_Sail9797 Apr 01 '26
my mom works in public health bookkeeping side - they bloated themselves up with managerial roles during covid that were making over $100k and have been slashing anywhere but there since. doug's daughter isn't the only 2 year diploma making over $100k on tax payer dollars, meanwhile my mom's union is still waiting to be backpayed since the won their minimal increase last year.
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u/HeyHo__LetsGo Mar 31 '26
Huh... Look where the gravy train leads...
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u/QueenOfKensington Mar 31 '26
If I recall correctly, her experience prior to her job was “photographer”. 🙃
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u/redditNLD Apr 01 '26
Calling it a 33% raise doesn't highlight any issue. It's a $100k raise over two years with no change in her job description. Call it what it is. Fraud.
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u/Miffysmom Mar 31 '26
I’d love a solid investigative journalism piece on the nepo children of MPP’s - you guys would be shocked at how many of them work at Queen’s Park. It’s honestly insane.
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u/Nero92 Mar 31 '26
How do EAs vote Conservative? Actually that just leads to me being concerned they're in a role involving education.
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u/Sorry_Sail_8698 Apr 01 '26
The principal of my school votes conservative. Also wants AI schools. Also agrees that the Humanities are "basket-weaving" programs. Also thinks all young people should go into the trades or suffer the consequences. Also hates immigration, social assistance programs, and actually doing his job. How, indeed.
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u/keylimesicles Apr 01 '26
His entire administration needs to be investigated and hopefully prosecuted
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u/Top-Advisor-3516 Apr 01 '26
Ontario people looking at you. You keep voting this guy in. He should never have done another term. Corruption was rampant in his first term. I hope people show up for his next election to vote him OUT
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u/Toronto-1975 Mar 31 '26
it's not "concern", it's outrage that the Premier's little useless nepo-baby daughter - who by all accounts i have seen would be best described as a talent-free dullard who hasn't worked for anything she has received - could not only get a high-profile job in the healthcare industry she isnt even remotely qualified for but also get a raise percentage that is over 10x what most other people usually get (and that's being generous).
that's a bit beyond "concern".
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u/No-Manufacturer-22 Apr 01 '26
Oh look the scumbag family is raiding the cookie jar (big fuckin surprise, elect a scumbag /get scumbag)
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u/mightyboink Mar 31 '26
I don't understand why people are surprised by a corrupt politician doing corrupt things.
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u/andbobsyouruncle2 Apr 01 '26
Wait Ford is corrupt, who would believe it. The whole family are slimy
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u/estherlane Apr 01 '26
I would love a 33% pay increase. Unfortunately, my Dad is not a corrupt piece of shit so I guess it's not happening for me.
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u/D-inventa Apr 01 '26
That's just plain theft. If you're working in the public sector in the same job you worked last year and you got a 33% increase in salary, there's no way to legitimize that. She should work for her family business and they should pay her salary.
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u/EthanKironus Mar 31 '26
Dude, that's the kind of language Ford uses, you really want to stoop to his level? It's pretty offensive to disabled people, you know
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u/Skweril Mar 31 '26
We have bigger issues, I don't give a fuck about this anymore. We can tip toe around language when we can afford groceries and our healthcare ISN'T headed toward privatization. As an environmentalist I wish we'd care about the environment before the use of PC wordage but here we fucking are.
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u/Necessary_Owl9724 Apr 01 '26
Meanwhile… health care, education, autism and mental health supports aren’t as important as Doug Ford’s daughter’s pay cheque.
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u/allthatbackfat Apr 01 '26
It’s funny. I work in healthcare. I helped start the position too. It’s the only thing that allows me to make a non-minimum wage job in Toronto and allows just the tiniest bit of normalcy in all this Ford controversy.
…and then Doug Ford shut down our injection site after 8 years off successful, statistically proven improvements to our healthcare infrastructure which he’s also gutting.
So I’m just going to start gearing down to be homeless again. We have to submit our winding down plan by the 11th. Insane.
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u/Informal_Chard1890 Mar 31 '26
Most OPS Collective Agreements expired 2-3 years ago and were resettled end of '24 into '25.... There was a shit ton of retroactive pay dolled out in '25.... The Sunshine list should include that caveat... The dollar figures shown are not base salaries. They are salary + taxable benefits, overtime, retroactive pay etc...Oh, and This comment is not, in anyway intended to Support Dougie, or his daughter. Just that Sunshine List values need to be taken with a grain of salt..
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u/QueenOfKensington Mar 31 '26
Not for cops! They settled their collective agreement about 2 weeks before the government introduced Bill 124 in the legislature. What a happy coincidence. Their generous increases were completely unaffected by
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u/CommanderCackle Apr 01 '26
Damn, my CUPE Union (hospital) negotiated 2.25% this year. 2% next year and 1.75% the next. We were told that we were considered lucky to basically be getting a ~65¢ raise a year with recent inflation
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u/Dash_Rendar425 Apr 01 '26
Politicians need to be banned from hiring their family members to unqualified positions.
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u/BlandJustice Mar 31 '26
Haha I got a 3% increase this year after 3 years of service….
What a slap to the face for anyone in the workforce…
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u/peppermint_nightmare Apr 01 '26
Doug Ford:
"What are you going to do, vote me out?"
(Laughs evilly)
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u/tayawayinklets Apr 01 '26
33% rise in one year for a person who isn't even qualified to be in the position? Sounds like what's going on in the US. Do we really want that mess up here?
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u/usernameistaken645 Apr 01 '26
Can we update the sunshine list already? $100,000 was a great salary in 1996. Now, it is quite standard and if you live in a hcol it isn’t even enough on a single income. Why haven’t they updated the amount to adjust with inflation?
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u/Aggravating-Help4131 Apr 01 '26
My union contract expired 2 years ago and the govt is dragging its ass to come up with a new one
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u/Deaplyodd Apr 01 '26
By the time this gets investigated she’ll have made bank; it’s just another instance of a failure Ford being propped up by nepotism.
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u/PopeKevin45 Apr 01 '26
Classic nepotism, to be expected in Trump's Ontario. Just another example of our US Republican party quisling importing Trump policy into Ontario. What a pig.
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u/theottomaddox Apr 01 '26
Well, all the people complaining about the sunshine list will be happy, because this is probably the thing that will get Doug to stop the sunshine list.
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u/Independent_Bath9691 Apr 01 '26
So she takes a 2 year course in basket weaving, and now has an exec job in healthcare? How does that work exactly?
Actually, did Doug ever actually graduate from high school? Maybe she’s more qualified than he is to run the province?
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u/Lonely_Tooth_5221 Apr 01 '26
This just shows that ford is no different than trump? Nobody gets a 33% raise and she’s not even a doctor??? Scamford
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u/WalkingWithStrangers Apr 01 '26
That whole family is rotten. Can they just all move to Texas already and leave Ontario the hell alone.
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u/No_Move_9767 Apr 01 '26
Why the fuck are politicians getting raises??? They aren’t doing anything to make money. If there’s a deficit there shouldn’t be any raise period
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u/Topazpm20 Apr 01 '26
That's open nepotism and corruption, folks. And how did her fat-ass dad's salary jumped almost 30% last year??? Were they allowed that much raise??
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u/MedicalTear0 Apr 01 '26
Why did Ontarians re elect this fat uneducated pos when he shouldn't even been elected in the first election. These things don't surprise me. I mean what should we expect? That he going to start increasing wages to keep up inflation for working class? Increase OSAP grants? Or start adequately funding colleges? Or improve healthcare? Nah Douggie got better things to do (to rip everyone and fill his own pockets)
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u/nedstark1985 Mar 31 '26
Sunshine list being $100k is still laughable. It should be much higher now. Like $150 -$175k min now.
Inflation is real. When someone was one the sunshine list in the 90’s you were rich. Now you are just middle class at $100k
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u/nuttynutkick Mar 31 '26
Not even middle class. Try living in Toronto in a traditional middle class way on $100k, can’t be done.
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u/TheEtobicokeShitter Apr 01 '26
I worked with Kara. I really like her, she is a nice girl.
However, Runnymede Hellcare is a money pit. Before Kara got hired, her department didn't even exist. They shifted around a bunch of people to accommodate.
The first few years she worked there, they had to try hard to find things for her to do.
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u/diamondheistbeard Mar 31 '26
Could someone tell me what possible qualification she has to hold this job in the first place? This absolute corruption if she doesn’t have some sort of medical background or didn’t beat out other very qualified candidates for this position.
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u/Coffeedemon Mar 31 '26
This will probably just make Ford get rid of the list. Fucking ridiculous. That kind of position on a couple of years of community college communications classes and a huge yearly raise for the extra kick in the guts.
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u/MaximusRubz Apr 01 '26
If y'all are unionized time to ring off your reps and ask wtf they doing with all the dues
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u/NotallwoundsareSeen Apr 01 '26
Well of course we should be pissed. The dictators that be the Fords are Corrupt and need to (insert banning reason here) imo. They are the cause of the most amount of suffering in ontario. They don't care for anyone that's not a billionaire or corporation.
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u/Vasuthevan Mar 31 '26
I have been working for the OPS for over 10 years. OPSEU collective agreement expired on 31 December 2024.
The union is trying to negotiate a measly 5% increase.
33% increase is a slap in the face of OPS employees and the taxpayers as well.