Striking public servants surrounded several picketing locations around Ottawa, including hundreds that took their spots on Parliament Hill.
PSAC releases list of picket line locationsShawn King, president of Local 70517 with the Union of National Defence, said it’s time for the government to “stop putting on the brakes” and offer workers higher wages, nothing that there are members who are stuffing to live.
The main issue both groups have been looking to negotiate are wages, with Aylward noting that, as of Monday, the government had made several wage offers, though none of them match inflation. In its wage proposals, PSAC called for CRA members to receive annual wage increases of 4.5 per cent, eight per cent and eight per cent again during a three-year contract as well as a one-time wage adjustment of nine per cent to account for a long-standing wage imbalance with Canada Border Services Agency employees.
Throughout the bargaining process, the government has indicated that it remains committed to reaching fair agreements, with the Treasury Board writing in a media release Monday that it tabled a wage offer of 9 per cent over three years that mirrors the recommendations of the third-party Public Interest Commission, which provided non-binding recommendations for the four PSAC bargaining units in the core public administration to reach a settlement earlier this year.
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