I am an employee of the institute, so I help represent these 55,000 members. Historically, this has not been a workplace that has gone on rampant strikes. There is not labour unrest in the federal public service. There's no urgency calling for this piece of legislation. Wages are not out of control. In fact, we've just come out from under the Expenditure Restraint Act in the 2009 omnibus bill. The PBO has recently declared that the wage increase in the public sector is just about the rate of inflation. We're not running away with pockets full of money at the bargaining table.
On November 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.