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Sunday at the Movies (Union Power)
This video is about how American public sector unions have used their immense power to hold taxpayers to ransom and push governments deeply into debt. The same thing is happening in Ontario, as this National Post editorial attests. It has recently come to light that, in a particularly distasteful maneuver, the Ontario government negotiated “only” a 2% annual raise with the province’s largest public sector union, bragged about its acumen in bargaining - all the while concealing a secret agreement to pay the union an extra percentage point raise in 2012 after the next provincial election. As the editorial points out, the Ontario government has increased its spending by 50% since it took office in 2003, leaving the province $200 billion in debt and reducing it to “have-not” status.