Few Albertans would shed tears or anxiously grip the edges of Grandpa Dwayne's wheelchair to hear of money - saving efforts to transfer cafeteria, security or pillowcase - folding duties to outside companies — and few outside of union halls will stand to applaud Notley if she highlights this level of public
service job preservation.
Perla seemed to suggest that these professionals lacked the courage to push change within their institutions and were more interested
in job preservation.
Ultimately, that gatekeeper deference — that fearful attitude — can be explained as
a job preservation strategy.