Public service strike? Union representing 120K workers to announce vote – National | 24CA News
The union representing 120,000 federal public service employees will announce the outcomes of its strike vote Wednesday morning.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) held strike votes between Feb. 22 and April 11 for employees in program and administrative companies, technical companies, schooling and library science, and operational companies teams. It is scheduled to announce the outcomes at 10 a.m. Eastern.
The 4 bargaining items concerned are a part of the Treasury Board Secretariat, a central authorities company that operates successfully as a nerve centre for a major quantity of labor associated to the fundamental functioning of the federal authorities.
Earlier this 12 months, the federal authorities filed two complaints towards PSAC over claims the union shouldn’t be negotiating “in good faith” for a brand new deal.
The authorities alleges that PSAC has “flooded the bargaining tables with costly proposals,” with not less than 500 proposals over its 5 bargaining items, whereas saying that PSAC has “refused to prioritize their requests, refused to move on their initial proposals, and did not respond to the employer’s comprehensive offers.”
PSAC left the bargaining desk on Sept. 1, 2022, through the sixth negotiation session and declared an deadlock. The events had been negotiating since final summer season.
The union has stated that the federal authorities’s transfer to file a grievance is “just another stalling tactic to deny workers a fair contract.” It has alleged the federal government has refused to “negotiate remote work and better work-life balance at the table.”
PSAC, which is one among Canada’s largest unions, introduced final week the outcomes of a strike vote amongst members of the Union of Taxation Employees, a element of PSAC that represents 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees.
Members voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of taking strike motion, in accordance with a press release launched Friday from the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
A remaining spherical of negotiations is ready for April 17-20 between PSAC and CRA, with members at CRA in a authorized strike place as of April 14.
When mixed, the 35,000 CRA employees and the 120,000 Treasury Board employees make up 155,000 federal staff, which is roughly half of the employees of the 335,957 staff working with the federal public service.
— with information from Eric Stober
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