On the seventh day of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)’s strike, workers escalated the protest by blocking access to office buildings in downtown Ottawa and disrupting traffic.
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Prime Minister’s Office building and the Treasury Board headquarters, where they limited entry to one person every five minutes. Another group of strikers blocked cars on a bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., where many federal buildings are located.
The move comes one day after PSAC President Chris Aylward warned the union would move its picket lines to “strategic locations” in order to cause greater disruption to the federal government….