PSAC to provide update on weekend negotiations as strike continues – National | 24CA News
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is ready to carry an replace shortly after official talks with the federal authorities continued Saturday to barter an finish to their strike.
“We’ve continued to make some progress in negotiations this week as PSAC members joined picket lines across the country to pressure the government for a fair contract,” the union stated in an announcement early Saturday morning.
“However, there are several key issues still outstanding at the table, and talks will continue over the weekend for more than 155,000 workers at Treasury Board and Canada Revenue Agency in the hopes of reaching an agreement.”
Several hours later, the union introduced they are going to maintain an announcement at 1:15 p.m. Eastern, which Global News will stream stay right here, “to provide an update on the status of negotiations with Treasury Board.”
The strike started this week and noticed federal employees type picket strains to push the federal government to fulfill the union’s targets, which embody a 13.5 per cent wage improve over three years.
Despite the union saying it had overwhelming help for the strike motion, the federal labour board revealed on Thursday that solely 35 per cent of its over 100,000 members took half within the vote calling for a strike.
The board present in a choice launched Thursday that PSAC did not correctly let members understand it had shortened the voting interval by eight days, transferring the deadline from April 19 to April 11. Of the 38,207 those that forged a poll, 80 per cent of them have been in favour of a strike mandate.
The choice additionally reveals that the union didn’t have the right e mail addresses for 15,000 members. Those individuals obtained a letter within the mail as an alternative, which was despatched earlier than the union moved up the April deadline.
— with information from The Canadian Press.
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