CRA workers have voted in favour of taking strike action as they look to negotiate wage increases and other demands.
The union is calling for annual wage increases of 4.5 per cent, followed eight per cent and eight per cent again during a three-year contract to keep up with inflation. Other key issues for the union include continuing telework, enhancing job security, improving work-life balance and implementing a
Since then, Brière said in a previous interview with this newspaper, CBSA employees enforcing the Excise Act have opened a nine per cent wage gap with CRA employees who administer the Income Tax Act.Article content “We had a really good turnout right across the country,” Aylward said. “With more than half of the members at CRA taking part, we’re looking at 19,000 members who participated in this strike vote.”
“We’re hopeful that they’re going to get a renewed mandate to negotiate with us,” Brière said. “If not, there’ll be consequences and we won’t have a choice but to walk out and strike.” For its part, the CRA said in an emailed statement signed by spokesperson Etienne Biram that it is “eager” to resume negotiations and “committed to continuing to bargain in good faith and making every reasonable effort to reach an agreement at the bargaining table that is fair to employees and reasonable for taxpayers.”
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