Winnipeg Free Press: Francophone school trustees, superintendent get raises

Superintendent Alain Laberge’s salary was topped up by eight per cent during that period.

Laberge oversees the employment of 1,200 workers involved in teaching and supporting upwards of 6,000 students across 24 schools in rural and urban communities in Manitoba. Last year, his pay was $243,386.

“Rank-and-file workers don’t look kindly on these types of things,” said Adam King, an assistant professor of labour studies at the University of Manitoba.

“It definitely can rub workers the wrong way. From the other side, it might also be that the union uses it as a mobilizing tool to frame its messaging, to mobilize its members around a particular wage ask at the bargaining table.”

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