Reading through this article I can see both sides of why the reform is hit with resistance, but also reading through the article there is a strong sense that the workers within this department need to be fired.  To be to the point.  My wife has been rejected from EI because she is a private school teacher and is laid off each year for the summer, now she is not paid the amount or for the summer like the public school teachers are, but we accepted their reason and planned next year accordingly.  Yes there is jobs out there that are not full year and are seasonal, but does this mean that there is nothing to be done?  What if in areas where the population is mainly seasonal workers have the unemployed complete required volunteer activities provided through the government.  This way we address the issue and those getting EI they are justifying it by giving back to the government. Please note that we will not address the union based workers and the issues they have with this.

 

To get to the biggest issue though is the fact that the workers within this department seem to feel they are indispensable.  Changing documents so that a specific claimant can fall into a different bracket and be allowed to continue on or get the benefits. Why is it that when we hear of these occurrences there is not any consequences.  It just brings this to the forefront within our government and why people do have issues within it.  Even though they will deny it forever, there is a culture of jobs for life.  You can be convicted of a serious crime, be sent to jail and then upon release resume your job within the government.  It just seems that these bargaining deals gave the unions too much artificial power and they were able to bamboozle us, Canadians, into agreeing to contracts where we gave away too much.  Now we did not get to sign them personally but our representative did.  With all these cuts that are happening to our wallets as citizens when will it be consistent that at any level of government there is consequences implemented for doing a poor job or there is no pay raise when you have done no improvements.  We seriously need to look at this and make the change now rather than do what we typically do and wait until stuff has hit the fan.