Federal government walks away from bargaining, says union, prompting strike talk
The Public Service Alliance of Canada
had gone back to the bargaining table on Sept. 1, and was sounding
optimistic as late as Friday that a tentative deal could be reached for
administrative employees that account for roughly half of the union’s
140,000 members.
had gone back to the bargaining table on Sept. 1, and was sounding
optimistic as late as Friday that a tentative deal could be reached for
administrative employees that account for roughly half of the union’s
140,000 members.
Despite six continuous days of bargaining,
however, Treasury Board negotiators failed to produce an adequate wage
offer, nor did it come close to the union’s demands of compensation for
federal employees affected by the government’s failed Phoenix pay
system, the union said.