(Montreal) The new collective agreements covering 155,000 federal public service union members will be officially signed next week.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada has announced that the Treasury Board and the Canada Revenue Agency have in turn ratified the tentative agreements that were reached between the parties last spring, ending the strikes.
On June 16, the Alliance, which represents these 120,000 union members working in departments and agencies and these 35,000 at the Revenue Agency, announced that they had “voted massively” in favor of their respective agreement.
Now that this stage of the ratification has passed for the employer and union parties, it will remain for them to sign the collective agreements, which should be done next week, specifies the PSAC in a message to its members.
These union members had walked off the job for several days in April, making one of the largest strikes the country has ever known.
The large pan-Canadian union specifies that “all non-monetary provisions will come into force as soon as the collective agreements are signed”.
As for the other clauses, “the employer has 180 days, from the date of signature, to apply the salary increases and adjustments and the allowances,” adds the PSAC.