PSAC strike: Feds say ‘final’ offer to union has ‘enhanced’ wage package – National | 24CA News
As federal employees proceed to strike, Ottawa says it has tabled a “final” provide to the Public Service Alliance of Canada that addresses “all remaining” union calls for, together with a beefed-up wage package deal.
The nationwide strike stretched into an eleventh day Saturday as neither aspect has been capable of resolve the labour dispute over wages and distant work.
The union had been looking for a wage improve of 13.5 per cent over three years, however has since “moved off” that demand.
In a press release launched Saturday, the Treasury Board stated a “final updated comprehensive offer” tabled Friday consists of an “enhanced wage offer” that “builds” on suggestions by an unbiased arbitrator, with out offering extra particulars.
Earlier this yr, that unbiased arbitrator really helpful a 9 per cent wage improve over three years. Ottawa beforehand tabled that supply – with a signing bonus — which was not accepted by the union.
“Along with the new wage package, we also presented solutions to address priorities such as telework, seniority, and contracting without impeding our ability to deliver services to Canadians,” the assertion added.
“This is a fair, competitive and reasonable final offer, with wage and non-wage improvements, and we believe that employees should have an opportunity to review the details of it.”
Treasury Board president Mona Fortier stated in an open letter Monday the federal government has reached agreements with PSAC on greater than 560 calls for from the union.
But she stated 4 key points remained unresolved: wage will increase, distant work as a negotiated proper, a ban on contracting out, and deciding who will get laid off within the occasion of cuts primarily based on seniority.
On Friday, PSAC confirmed that it had acquired the brand new provide from the federal authorities as either side resumed talks.
“We hope to continue bargaining this weekend in order to reach a fair deal for our 120,000 federal public service members,” the union stated in a press release.
The strike has seen greater than 100,000 federal public servants throughout the nation stroll off the job whereas the union negotiates a brand new collective settlement with Ottawa for some 155,000 employees, together with these deemed important and who should proceed working.
As the strike continues, Canadians are going through federal service disruptions starting from immigration providers to passport purposes.
PSAC represents roughly 120,000 federal public servants.
The Union of Taxation Employees (PSAC-UTE), a subdivision of PSAC, is individually negotiating a contract for greater than 35,000 hanging Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) employees.
— with recordsdata from Global News’ Aaron D’Andrea and Sean Boynton
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