Showing posts with label Wage increases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wage increases. Show all posts

Monday, February 6, 2012

TNRD: Asking for ANY increase this year is completely unjustified


An editorial today in the Kamloops Daily News alerted me to something I somehow missed last week.

The elected members of the Thompson Nicola Regional District (TNRD) awarded themselves a 1.7% wage increase.  Now I know that doesn’t sound like a lot … but that’s ON TOP OF A 40% INCREASE they felt justified in giving themselves just a year ago,

So in actual fact --- TNRD board members have gone to the taxpayers of the Thompson Nicola region (which includes the City of Kamloops), and not asked for, but simply taken, a wage increase of 41.7%.

Here is a bit of the editorial from the Kamloops Daily News …