Striking public servants surrounded several picketing locations around Ottawa, including hundreds that took their spots on Parliament Hill.
“We’ve been negotiating almost two-and-a-half years,” King said. “We’re hoping this will be a very short strike but we’ll stay as long as we need.”
Shawn King, president of Local 70517 with the Union of National Defence, said it’s time for the government to “stop putting on the brakes” and offer workers higher wages, nothing that there are members who are suffering to live.”They need to stop treating us like poo,” King said.Samantha Basha, a member of the Program and Administrative Services bargaining team, said she was disappointed to be out striking Wednesday.
Basha said she expects the strike won’t last long given the service disruptions that will occur from having 155,000 people away from work.Samantha Basha, a member of the Program and Administrative Services bargaining team, said she was disappointed to be out striking Wednesday.Kal Battepati, a volunteer with the union and an employee with Health Canada, spent his morning scanning workers’ barcodes to keep track of their time on the picket line.
Colleagues Wendy Bolf, left, and and Rebecca Gauder, among the hundreds of public servants in and around Tunney’s Pasture station Wednesday morning.For Arbin Gurung, a program administrator at Innovation, Science and Economic Development, the biggest issue on the table is a raise, but it’s far from the only one he’s thinking about.
“We don’t want to go on strike, and some of us don’t feel like we can afford it in some ways, because a lot of things are expensive, but that’s also part of the reason why we’re on strike too.”Article content “We’re here to show that we’re ready to fight for the contract and the wages we deserve,” Silas said.
Alex Silas, PSAC regional executive vice-president for the National Capital Region, hyping up the crowd of strikers at 90 ElginAylward said PSAC would stay at the bargaining table while workers strike but that both sides are still at odds in their negotiations. The union’s strike fund sat at over $43 million as of 2021.
In its wage proposals, PSAC called for CRA members to receive annual wage increases of 4.5 per cent, eight per cent and eight per cent again during a three-year contract as well as a one-time wage adjustment of nine per cent to account for a long-standing wage imbalance with Canada Border Services Agency employees.
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