Canada's biggest federal public service union is preparing to ramp up its ongoing strike by moving picket lines to strategic locations such as ports on Monday.
In a Sunday interview with The Canadian Press, Public Service Alliance of Canada National President Chris Aylward said civil servants need to further affect the economy to push Ottawa for a solution.
As of 2 p.m. Sunday, the union said it had not heard back from the federal Treasury Board. The office of Treasury Board President Mona Fortier, the Liberal minister overseeing the negotiations, said it will respond. Aylward said the union's top three priorities are wages, remote work and job security in relation to layoffs.
"When the federal government represses wages on its own employees, all they're doing is repressing wages for all workers across the country," Aylward said."He's the only one that can really, at this point, unlock some of those key issues," he said.
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