While the union representing nearly 124,000 federal public servants across Canada says higher pay is top of mind as a new round of negotiations with Ottawa takes place under the cloud of a strike mandate, other issues have been brought up — including workers’ desire for more say in working from home.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), which represents affected Treasury Board workers, has been in collective bargaining with the federal government since June 2021.
Those talks broke down in May 2022, according to the alliance, leading a labour relations board to make non-binding recommendations for how to get things back on track.
The union and the government then began
