Canada’s largest federal public service union is getting ready to ramp up its ongoing strike by transferring picket traces to strategic places resembling ports on Monday.
Public Service Alliance of Canada National President Chris Aylward says civil servants don’t need to disrupt Canadians’ lives, however have to additional have an effect on the financial system to push Ottawa for an answer.
He says which means going past workplace buildings the place public servants work to incorporate places he says could have extra influence on the federal government.
Aylward’s feedback, supplied in a Sunday interview with The Canadian Press, come on the fifth day of one among Canada’s largest strikes.
More than 100,000 union members walked off the job Wednesday after contract talks broke down following months of negotiations.
Aylward says Ottawa offered a package deal on Saturday which the union responded to later that day.
He says the federal government has not offered something new as of Sunday afternoon, and the federal Treasury Board couldn’t instantly be reached for affirmation.
Both sides blame one another for a breakdown in communications, with every accusing one another of cherry-picking info they current to the general public to make the opposite appear unreasonable.
