This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader, Tim Hudak, has urged government workers to do their part to balance the budget and create jobs through a two-year freeze on public sector wages. In a strongly worded press release, Hudak stated that “private sector workers are facing higher hydro bills and taxes while working longer hours for stagnant pay.” Whereas, “at the same time, government workers have it better than ever, with 97,000 of them already making six figure salaries. That’s why I am going to freeze wages for all government workers. Starting with politicians. Starting with me.”
It was pointed out that during the government of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Premier Kathleen Wynne, the number of government workers making six-figure salaries has more than quadrupled, i.e. a total of 97,000. The press release revealed that “for the next two years, it does not matter if you are a politician, union leader, or senior bureaucrat, if you come asking for a raise – the answer will be ‘No.’” Hudak mentioned that “I will close and lock the vault door. I won’t ask taxpayers for another $2 billion in taxes just so we can give 1.1 million government workers another raise.”
Furthermore, the press release pointed out that under the Ontario PC Million Jobs Plan, a government-wide wage freeze will be imposed that will save Ontario taxpayers $2 billion per year. The wage freeze is one of the primary prerequisite of the Ontario PC plan to balance the budget by 2016 and create one million new jobs over the next eight years.
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