So I would love to hear the insider take on why the Province is taking over the Boards of Education in Ontario.
I've heard a rumour going around that it's a move towards eventual privatization. That honourary degree that Ford received from a U.S. college? That's a courtship (the company hoping to get the contracts for privatized Ontario schooling).
I think we all went quiet white we adjusted to new realities but maybe this reminiscing will get us fired up again.
OPSEU is still bargaining - so how hard are we willing to fight? Is there anything we're willing to trade on?
Frankly they can take my health spending account + a few vacation days in exchange for a permanent hybrid work arrangement.
For someone who goes into work 5 days a week, I'm in a good space.
But I seriously miss working from home. I was incredibly productive but it was pretty special having my elderly parents in the next room, my cats keeping me company during the day, getting in 20 minutes of gardening on my lunch break and wearing lounge wear all day. Sigh ...
I understand for some people, it wasn't that great but for me it was *chef's kiss*
Co-Pilot (at work btw) just informed me that there was no escalation of U.S. hostilities against Venezuela nor capture and arrest of Nicholas Maduro.
So, I'm not trusting that the information provided won't be used in surplussing and reclassification exercises. I know the union is endorsing it as a pay equity initiative but .. uh yeah I'm not comfortable with this. There's also so many regional differences in the same positions/job titles etc.
Also, they're probably feeding everything to AI which ...
So, our pensions are designed to work in conjunction with the CPP payouts at retirement. Now that the Federal Government has incentivized us to take CPP at a later stage (it's not a small amount btw) - how does that impact our pensions?
Will we be getting significantly less from OPTrust or PSPP and more from CPP?
Also, our pension estimators don't show us these scenarios.