After five days of mediation without meaningful progress, PA bargaining is back at the table at a critical stage. With the Public Interest Commission being bypassed, the bargaining process is moving quickly. This is Treasury Board's chance to make a meaningful offer. If that does not happen, a strike vote could be the next step.
1. Fair wages. What PSAC is fighting for: 4.75 percent per year for three years, plus 7 percent in market adjustments to address longstanding pay gaps. What Treasury Board is offering: 2 percent in 2025, then 0.5 percent per year for the next three years.
2. Stronger job security. What PSAC is fighting for: better protections during workforce adjustment, greater job security for term employees, and protections against contracting out work. What Treasury Board is proposing: weakening of job security, including moving workforce adjustment out of the collective agreement and into the National Joint Council process.
3. Real remote-work rights. What PSAC is fighting for: telework requests considered individually, decisions based on reasonable business grounds, and written reasons when requests are denied. What Treasury Board is offering: no meaningful movement.
4. Protections from AI. What PSAC is fighting for: AI should augment, not replace, public service workers, with safeguards around automated decisions, privacy, surveillance and job security. What Treasury Board is offering: no agreement to the enforceable protections PSAC is seeking on AI and emerging technology.
5. Protect and improve our rights. What PSAC is fighting for: better parental leave top-ups, paid reproductive health leave, safer workplaces and stronger workplace protections. What Treasury Board is proposing: concessions, including proposals that would restrict access to some leave and give management greater discretion over family-related leave.
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Source: All eyes on mediation
