Municipal Politics

[Greenspace]

I'm assuming the members still have to vote on the tentative agreement.

Library workers are separate negotiations which continue.

 

[David A]

I don't think what you're putting forward is quite apples to apples...

A councilor's salary and the mayor's salary "are what they are". There is no moving from councilor step 1 to step 2 to step 3 to step 4 to step 5 to councilor step 6. likewise for the mayor.

The difference between a step 1 and a step 6 union salary can be 25% or more and those increments are available to individual union members even without an overall contract increases (i.e. they're available within a 0% contract increase). The only salaries that actually get frozen in a 0% increase would be those at step 6 on the scale.

Yeah, but the mayor who makes more than the Premier and most other big city mayors, and council seem to be at level 7, or maybe level 10!

I'm not against ever compensating officials well, but I don't think the current results justify such a level of pay.

Also, it is very hard to set an example or lead when you both make much more than most employees and are getting a bigger increase that what is being offered to them.

This would have been a good time for more restraint, but the politicians who currently lead our city are remarkably tone deaf and somehow insulated from reality.

 

[Whattagame]

Yeah, but the mayor who makes more than the Premier and most other big city mayors, and council seem to be at level 7, or maybe level 10!

I'm not against ever compensating officials well, but I don't think the current results justify such a level of pay.

Also, it is very hard to set an example or lead when you both make much more than most employees and are getting a bigger increase that what is being offered to them.

This would have been a good time for more restraint, but the politicians who currently lead our city are remarkably tone deaf and somehow insulated from reality.

I don't know if the process is airtight in terms of being influenced by people on council, but the current system of third-party salary review is the correct one.
https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/defau...al_Report_2020_Attachment_1.pdf?cb=1710455580

 

[Gronk!]

I'm assuming the members still have to vote on the tentative agreement.

Library workers are separate negotiations which continue.

A tentative agreement for EPL workers was reached late yesterday.

 

[TAS]

Glad Sohi is still pushing this issue. The city can't let this drop.

 

[Gronk!]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770091270595043536

 

[Gus Haynes]

Whether or not she's attending that particular UCP fundraiser in her "capacity" as a city councilor seems a bit debatable, but I'm more disappointed that she would do this in the first place, even in an "unofficial" or "personal" capacity.

 

[trevorhayden]

She needs to resign immediately or be barred from re-election for life.

 

[Gronk!]

To be honest I had no idea Sarah Hamilton was still around. She was a rising star during Don Iveson's last term as Mayor but she's been quiet since the last election.

 

[trevorhayden]

Too busy planning to run for the UCP.

 

[Gronk!]

Edmonton city councillor Hamilton's involvement in UCP fundraiser questioned

Edmonton city councillors are raising questions after Coun. Sarah Hamilton participated in a UCP fundraiser as a panelist.

edmontonjournal.com

 

[trevorhayden]

She in deep doodoo

 

[David A]

Probably did not look very good when she rushed out during an important discussion about an impending employee strike to a fundraiser, when a number of other councilors had cancelled their plans for that evening.

 

[The_Cat]

Do UCP at the Royal Glenora Club?

 

[Gronk!]

PSA - City Hall re-opens to the public

City Hall re-opens to the public March 20, 2024 City Hall has entered the last phase of re-opening and will re-open to the public on March 25. The City of Edmonton welcomes back community members and

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