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A public sector union in Canada announced on Monday (1st) an agreement to end the strike of several thousand civil servants who, for ten days, have been demanding salary increases and more teleworking.
The agreement ends one of the largest strikes in the history of the Canadalaunched on April 19 by 155,000 civil servantsthat is the equivalent of one third of the country’s employees.
The shutdown affected many federal services, such as passport issuance and immigration applications.
After about two years of negotiations, the Public Services Alliance of Canada (PSAC) announced in a press release that it had reached “interim agreements for its 120,000 members”.
According to the text, the agreement will apply to tens of thousands of civil servants who must resume their functions from this Monday at 9:00 a.m. local time (10:00 a.m. Brasilia time), with a “fair and equitable employment contract”. which goes beyond what the employer had proposed before the start of the strike”.
The PSAC said it had won wage increases of 12.6% over four years, for the period from 2021 to 2024.
The union demanded a 13.5% increase in three yearsie 4.5% per year to compensate for inflation, whereas the government had proposed 9% over the same period.
He also said he got “much better protections around working from home.”
Yet 35,000 tax service workers continue to strike in Canada.
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