Our TC bargaining team met with the employer on April 29-30 to make progress on key priorities. The employer’s insulting wage proposal was the final straw for our bargaining team after the employer spending months ignoring our top issues, leaving us with no choice but to declare impasse.

Our PA bargaining team spent three days in mediation with Treasury Board, April 28– 30. While we did see some minor movement at the table after months of delay, most of it was limited to editorial matters. The employer remained focused on pushing concessions instead of seriously addressing members’ priorities.

Workers and unions across Canada are continuing to push back against arbitrary return-to-office mandates that ignore the realities of modern work. A new House of Commons e-petition, Petition e-7142, is calling on the federal government to update the Canada Labour Code to better reflect those realities.