With contract negotiations at an impasse and a resolution unlikely before tonight, more than 100,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) are set to strike beginning Wednesday, April 19.
These are workers from across the public service; cleaners and cooks on military bases, clerks and maintenance workers, tradespeople, Coast Guard search and rescue teams, teachers, firefighters, and workers who process employment insurance, passport applications and immigration documents. In essence, without these workers, Canada does not work.
The employer, the Treasury Board of Canada, has yet to come up with offers that are suitable to the union’s demands. PSAC wants wage increases that keep up with inflation, increased job security, an end to systemic racism in the workplace, enshrining work from home, and no more contracting out and privatizing of public service work.
The PSAC Strike and CUPW
Why should CUPW members care?