PSAC workers are going on strike at midnight. Here’s what happens now
PSAC) announced Tuesday night, after the union failed to reach an agreement with the federal government.Canada’s largest public service union had set a deadline of 9 p.m.
Eastern Tuesday for the two sides to make a deal. With the deadline come and and gone, the union’s members — including 35,000 Canada Revenue Agency employees — will now walk off the job beginning at 12:01 a.m.
Eastern Wednesday.“Our issues at the bargaining table have still not been addressed,” Chris Aylward, the union’s national president, told reporters in Ottawa shortly after the deadline passed.Aylward said the union’s negotiators will remain at the bargaining table as the strike goes on, adding the two sides are “still a ways apart.”A strike has the potential to impact many government services, particularly for Canadians still looking to file their income tax returns ahead of this month’s deadline.Talks were ongoing as of Tuesday afternoon, with a PSAC spokesperson telling Global News the union was putting “all of our focus on bargaining leading up to the 9 p.m.
deadline” and declining media interviews.Treasury Board President Mona Fortier told reporters Tuesday afternoon that she was optimistic a deal would be struck by the deadline.“We have a competitive and fair wage on the table and also that is reasonable to Canadians.
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