The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has called a Wednesday morning news conference to announce the results of a strike vote for a group representing more than 120,000 federal public servants across Canada.
The announcement is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET in Ottawa. CBC will carry it live in this story.
The union said in January, as it announced the strike votes, that four more bargaining groups had the same issue with the Treasury Board over proposed wage increases that are outstripped by the rate of inflation.
At that time, the Treasury Board said the government was “disappointed” about the strike vote and that there was “lots of room to reach a fair and reasonable agreement for public servants.”
Among the four latest groups is one known as program and administrative services, the largest bargaining unit in the core federal public service. That one counts nearly 100,000 employees who administer programs, do communications work, clerical functions, data processing and more.
The others are operational employees such as firefighters, tradespeople and ship crews, the technical services group, and the education and library science group.
About 35,000 PSAC workers at the Canada Revenue Agency, which are a different group, voted in favour of strike action Friday ahead of mediation talks set to take place later this month.
