As more than 120,000 federal public servants across the country prepare for a potential strike, their union is asking for non-wage benefits such as employer contributions to its Social Justice Fund, mandatory diversity and inclusion training, and shift premiums for working past 4 p.m.
On April 12, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) announced that its members had voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of a strike mandate in nationwide strike votes that took place from Feb. 22 to April 11.
According to an analysis of PSAC’s demands by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), released April 13, the union’s “program and administrative services” bargaining unit, a group of 97,000 employees, is seeking a 29 percent compounded compensation increase over three years, at a 9 percent increase each year….