Federal Government & Union spar over returning to office

[dapaterson]

Yep. I worked there at Carling just before the final curtain. I was with the IT security group at the time. We told our bosses it was a bad idea having tons of Chinese students working there, and all of the Chinese "delegations" touring, but the Chinese were throwing $ around like they were at a stipper pole and Nortel Executives ate it up.

Outsourcing production to China was also not the smartest choice (made by other companies as well - right, JDS?)

 

[brihard]

Outsourcing production to China was also not the smartest choice (made by other companies as well - right, JDS?)

Who also bequeathed their defunct Ottawa campus to become a federal headquarters.

 

[dapaterson]

Who also bequeathed their defunct Ottawa campus to become a federal headquarters.

So you're saying we need more Canadian company bankruptcies to get more GoC office space?

 

[brihard]

So you're saying we need more Canadian company bankruptcies to get more GoC office space?

RTO3s in Shopify

 

[PrairieFella]

So much for breaking the Ottawa bubble. Those unwashed masses in the regions don't know anything anyways. One of the best benefits of WFH from allowing an actual diversity in the PS.

 

[Good2Golf]

RTO3s in Shopify

Well last time I did some co-work at TCC (all the empty no-longer-Shopify floors on 8-9-10) there was lots of free space at 150 Elgin…

 

[The Bread Guy]

So much for breaking the Ottawa bubble. Those unwashed masses in the regions don't know anything anyways ...

One course on how government works I took (in Ottawa, of course) had one instructor (who'd worked in both HQ and regional offices of a department) saying HQ liked to call regional office bosses "warlords," so I'm not surprised at Head Shed hesitancy about encouraging teams whose members come from different parts of the federation. #CentreKnowsBest

In other news, how not to make friends with the neighbours?

'Buy nothing': PSAC wants federal workers to boycott downtown Ottawa businesses

A union representing federal employees is asking its members to bring their own lunch to work, in an apparent retaliation against downtown Ottawa businesses as new return-to-office protocols begin.

ottawa.ctvnews.ca

This from PSAC's Instagram feed ...

 

[Remius]

PSAC is making a mistaking by targeting the wrong people. But unions generally do that…

 

[Furniture]

PSAC is making a mistaking by targeting the wrong people. But unions generally do that…

Yes and no. Pressure from downtown business wanting PS lunch bucks leads to pressure from City Hall, which leads to pressure of the government located in that city.

When downtown businesses started pushing that a couple of years back I started spending less downtown.