The Canadian Public Service Alliance has reached a tentative agreement with the Treasury Board covering over 120,000 employees in the federal government across the country. The national strike for Treasury Board workers has now ended, and they must now return to work at 9 a.m. on Monday or their next scheduled shift.
 

PSAC union says the strike continues for 35,000 workers at the Canada Revenue Agency nationwide, with contract negotiations ongoing.

The union says the new contract agreement guarantees a wage increase of up to 12.6 percent over four years and a total lump sum of $2,500 paid at retirement, which represents an additional 3.7 percent of salary for a regular union member in Treasury Board bargaining units.

It says members will be able to access additional protections when managers make arbitrary decisions about remote work, and managers will be required to assess remote work requests individually, not by group, and provide written responses.

Notably, public employees organized picket lines at sites across the country starting April 19 in what the union described as one of the largest job actions in Canadian history.

Service disruptions loomed significantly during the work stoppage, ranging from slowdowns at the border to temporary suspensions of new employment insurance, immigration applications, and passports.

Initial negotiations on a new collective agreement began initially in June 2021, and the union declared an impasse in May 2022, with both parties having filed labor complaints since then.