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AMS Council will vote tonight on whether to immediately increase pay for executives.
This would require that AMS Council break code—the rules that the body sets out for itself—which states that any pay increases for executives can only come into effect for the next cohort.
If passed, the motion would give executives a $2500 pay bump along with a possible $5000 performance bonus. No measures for how performance will be judged have been proposed. Executives currently make $25,000 a year.
Two-thirds of Council will have to vote in favour of the motion in order to break code.
The motion comes from a special Executive Compensation Working Group that was formed at the end of the school year after the AMS increased pay for its student government employees in the wake of the May minimum wage hike. None of the executives were involved in the decision-making process that led up to this proposal.
This proposal comes mere months after the AMS increased student fees in a referendum, in which they argued that the society, as AMS president Jeremy McElroy said at the time, was “essentially broke.” The fee changes passed by a margin of 2.2 per cent, with 4522 students voting in favour and 4136 students voting against.
Pay increases for AMS Services employees are also being proposed at tonight’s meeting.
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Sounds like a hell of a party up there, hope something ends up trickling down to the plebians at the end of the day. Fantastic way of making that fee increase look good too.
Wow, just wow. Gouging students while doing a mediocre job. Way to not represent student interest. I bet there are students at UBC who work harder than AMS execs and yet have to go into debt because of all the fees. Self-entitlement much?
Well if you think about it, they’re making about what most students make (who actually get a job) so I don’t see any problem.
$5000 performance bonus-this will be tough to measure. If an execs says i will reply to emails-and does she will get a $5000 bonus-thatss essentially what LPC determined.
People, ever wonder why all news regarding AMS are money-related?
Because the AMS exec spend 99.9% of their time discussing their own benefits rather than OUR BENEFITS.
You want to hear some student-related topics?
Ask yourself do you really give a shit?
and keep in mind that the AMS execs are supposed to represent the students, ie they dont give a shit either
Monolith is wrong to say the execs spend most of their time discussing their own benefits. According to the other article, they had nothing to do with it. The non-executive councillors voted for it, but people weren’t voting on their own pay raises.