It is the end of one of the most important social movements in Canadian history. A union in the country announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement to end the strike for a majority of the thousands of civil servants who had been demanding salary increases and more teleworking for ten days.
This agreement puts an end to a huge social movement triggered on April 19 by 155,000 employees, the equivalent of a third of the country’s civil servants. Many services have been affected by the movement, such as passport and immigration applications.
Salary increases of 12.6%
After two years of negotiations, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) “has reached tentative agreements for its 120,000 members who report to Treasury Board and provide important services to the public,” she said. said in a statement. This end-of-strike agreement applies to tens of thousands of civil servants who were to start working again on Monday with a “fair and equitable contract of employment which surpasses what the employer had offered before the start of the strike”.
The PSAC thus obtained salary increases of 12.6% over four years, for the period from 2021 to 2024. It demanded an increase of 13.5% over three years, or 4.5% annually to compensate for the inflation while the government had proposed 9% over the same period.
She also obtained “much better protections compared to teleworking”: requests from employees, most of whom are still working entirely remotely since the pandemic, will be assessed individually. On the other hand, the strike continues for 35,000 employees assigned to the tax services.