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Talks are set to resume between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency, as some 35,000 CRA employees continue to walk the picket line.

Public Service Alliance of Canada could set a precedent for working from home in the country, experts say.PSAC and the Treasury Board came to an agreement early Monday, putting an end to a nationwide strike for over 120,000 union employees after nearly two weeks of picketing.As of Monday morning, Treasury Board workers were required to go back on the job, PSAC announced in a statement.

The union representing more than 100,000 striking public servants says it’s made some progress on wage demands and job security during weekend negotiations with the federal government.

As federal workers continue to strike, Ottawa says it has tabled a “final” offer to the Public Service Alliance of Canada that addresses “all remaining” union demands, including a beefed-up wage package.

NB Power is promising to react “swiftly,” after video surfaced Friday showing one of their trucks involved in an altercation with striking PSAC members in Oromocto, N.B.

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC).Treasury Board President Mona Fortier’s office said the government presented a new offer to PSAC on Friday as members nationwide continue their now 10-day-long strike.Earlier in the day, the union told Global News that talks were resuming following a stalemate at the table.“We hope to be bargaining throughout the weekend in order to reach a fair deal,” a PSAC spokesperson told Global News in an email.Wages and remote work are among the points of contention in the labour dispute, Fortier said earlier this week. The union, which was seeking a wage increase of 13.5 per cent over three years, has “moved off” that offer.

As the federal public service strike is into its second week, a new poll has found that Canadians are divided between the union and the federal government.

what it calls one of the largest strikes in Canadian history says the federal government is “stalling” on talks for a new collective agreement.Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) national president Chris Aylward made the claim Wednesday on Parliament Hill – which was the site of the “largest picket event of the strike” so far, the union said.The strike, which has gone on for eight days now, has seen more than 100,000 federal public servants across the country walk off the job while the union negotiates a new collective agreement with Ottawa for some 155,000 workers, including those deemed essential and who must continue working.Treasury Board President Mona Fortier said in a statement Wednesday that while Ottawa is determined to reach an agreement with the union, it needs PSAC “to start bringing their demands in line with the Public Interest Commission recommendations.”Earlier this year, that independent arbitrator recommended a nine per cent wage increase over three years. Ottawa has tabled that offer – with a signing bonus – but PSAC has been seeking a 13.5 per cent increase over three years.Aylward said PSAC has “moved off” its wage demands, but did not provide specifics.

Ottawa is buzzing with public servants in numbers that haven’t been seen since before the pandemic.And it’s all thanks to workers fighting for the right not to have to be there.Tuesday marks six days since more than 150,000 public servants walked off the job as part of their contract negotiations with the federal government.One of the major sticking points is the union’s call for more flexibility to allow workers to do their jobs from home.In December Treasury Board President Mona Fortier directed office workers who had spent most of the pandemic working remotely to return to the office at least two days a week.After COVID-19 hit, the city’s downtown businesses have suffered without throngs of workers to frequent them.Downtown Ottawa city councillor Ariel Troster says she thinks public servants will never return the core full time and the city needs to rethink how it supports the businesses that once relied on the workers.

strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and amid government vows not to negotiate in public, is the federal government doing exactly that?In what was called “An open letter to public servants and Canadians,” Treasury Board president Mona Fortier on Monday outlined her negotiating team’s position about what she said were the remaining sticking points with PSAC.Fortier also encouraged workers to “get a full understanding of all the issues that remain to be resolved” from their PSAC representatives.“It’s important for Canadians and public servants to understand what the government is doing to end the stress and strain from the labour disruption,” she wrote.The direct appeal to public servants on Monday comes after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other ministers last week insisted the government would not negotiate its position in public and urged talks to continue.“We are not negotiating in public right now,” Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday when asked about the union’s demands. “The negotiations happen at the negotiating table.”Fortier’s letter said the government has reached agreements with PSAC on more than 560 demands from the union.

One of Canada’s largest labour disruptions has entered a sixth day as the union representing thousands of striking public-service workers looks to hamper access to ports.

Canadians are being urged not to apply for a new passport or renew an old one as the major federal workers’ strike — which shows no sign of ending — severely disrupts services across the country.

The president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) said Saturday that the union has not heard a response from the Treasury Board yet on a proposal for a deal that the union’s team submitted Thursday night.

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) members be on strike?That question is being asked of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, which has the power to table back-to-work legislation, as federal public servants strike for the second day Thursday.The Liberals, who have a minority government, have sidestepped those questions, and opposition parties are facing queries as well on whether they would support such a bill.NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Wednesday his party, which is backing the Liberals on key items through a supply-and-confidence agreement, would not support back-to-work legislation.The Conservatives were non-committal on supporting such legislation, with the party’s Treasury Board critic MP Stephanie Kusie saying Wednesday the “incompetence” of the Trudeau government is what’s caused the strike.Though both parties say they want to see the two sides reach a deal, it’s unclear how long the strike will go on, and how it will end.

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is billing as “one of the largest strikes in Canada’s history,” more than 155,000 federal workers have walked off the job with many now on the picket lines.The strike kicked off Wednesday 12.01 a.m. Eastern, with nearly a third of the country’s public servants halting work after the union representing them failed to reach an agreement with the government.Picket lines are being set up in more than 250 locations across the country, according to PSAC.

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.

More than 155,000 federal public servants will strike on Wednesday if no deal is reached between the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada.

The union representing 120,000 federal public servants says an “overwhelming majority” of its members have voted in favour of a strike.

The Petroleum Services Association of Canada has revised its 2020 Canadian drilling forecast to an almost 50-year record low of 3,100 oil and gas wells, a level not seen since 2,900 wells were drilled in 1972.