Public Services Make a Difference!
Send an email to your MP, let them know you agree with Kay Sinclair:
"Public Services make a difference by enhancing our quality of life, promoting equality, protecting us from harm, and limiting the impact of job loss and illness. Public Service Alliance of Canada members who deliver these important and necessary public services deserve fair pay and safe and healthy working conditions."
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... and defend quality public services
The public advantage defined
There are many differences between quality public services and services provided by the private sector. The most significant difference is that public services are funded collectively by taxpayers and delivered by public sector workers, ensuring universal access, democratic accountability and the achievement of social objectives such as the elimination of poverty.
The public advantage at work
But the differences don't stop there. Public funding ensures services are responsive to the needs of communities and broad enough to provide the infrastructure for a healthy economy. Quality public services are responsive to the needs of all, including equity-seeking groups, and respectful of Charter rights.
No alternative to the public advantage
Two decades of privatization have taken their toll on quality public services. They've also taught us that none of the alternatives to publicly-funded, publicly-delivered services meet our needs and the needs of our communities.
Building resistance
Defending and promoting quality public services is a job for all of us. The knowledge and expertise of PSAC members puts our union in a position to play a leadership role. Our resistance to the efforts of governments and private sector to dismantle quality public services is gaining momentum, mobilizing members in the fight.