PSAC and Treasury Board return to the bargaining table

OTTAWA – The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and Treasury Board are returning to the bargaining table in a last-ditch attempt to reach settlements covering 100,000 PSAC members in three bargaining units.

PSAC National President Nycole Turmel announced today that the negotiations are resuming with Treasury Board in hopes of reaching agreements by October 12th. The union expects that it will also be returning to the bargaining table for our 30,000 members at the Canada Revenue Agency and the Parks Canada Agency.

“As a gesture of good faith, the union is postponing a general strike by our members,” says Turmel. “Our 80,000 Program and Administrative Services (Table 1) members are in a legal strike position as of October 7th and our 10,000 Technical Services (Table 3) members will be able to strike on October 12th. At this time, strike action by these Treasury Board members will not take place until October 12th.

The members of PSAC’s negotiating teams will be returning to Ottawa immediately and talks are expected to start no later than Friday.

“The union is returning to the bargaining table with the intention of obtaining settlements and we expect the employers to return with the same intent,” says Turmel.

PSAC currently has 40,000 members in a legal strike position who are continuing strategic strike action this week.