CTF says thousands of post-secondary employees collected bigger paycheques during downturn
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is releasing documents showing more than 11,500 university and college employees in Alberta getting a pay raise in 2020 and costing taxpayers and students $29 million.
“One way for universities and colleges to help struggling taxpayers and students would be to stop handing out pay raises that we can’t afford,” said Franco Terrazzano, Alberta Director for the CTF, in a press release. “The government is right to look for savings at Alberta’s colleges and universities and it should push these employees to help share in the burden and take a pay cut.”
Pay raises since 2015, when the downturn in Alberta began, cost $218 million, according to documents the CTF obtained from post-secondary institutions through freedom of information requests.
The findings are included in a report released by the CTF on Monday.