Workers at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action on behalf of 35,000 workers represented by the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cOur members have sent a strong message to CRA,\u201d said Chris Aylward, PSAC national president. \u201cWorkers can\u2019t wait, and we\u2019re ready to show this government we won\u2019t let workers fall behind.\u201d <\/p>\r\n\r\n
Workers at CRA have been without a contract for more than a year while the cost of living has continued to soar. The government still has major concessions on the table, and has yet to respond to the union\u2019s wage proposals. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
A final round of negotiations has been set for April 17-20 between PSAC and Canada Revenue Agency. Members at CRA are in a legal strike position April 14. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cOur members are falling further behind as inflation soars and wages are stuck in neutral,\u201d said Marc Bri\u00e8re, national president of the Union of Taxation Employees, a component of PSAC. \u201cWe\u2019ve negotiated in good faith, but our members have had enough. Our bills are mounting, and our families are feeling the pinch. And now, we\u2019re going to show the government that workers won\u2019t wait.\u201d <\/p>\r\n\r\n
PSAC-UTE members stepped up during the pandemic, when Canadians needed it most \u2014 and delivered. They processed nearly 30 million CERB applications and provided historic financial relief to millions of people hardest hit by COVID-19. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cTax season is here,\u201d Mr. Bri\u00e8re said. \u201cGoing on strike is never our first choice. But securing a strong strike mandate now gives us the leverage we need to reach a fair and decent contract. And if we need to take job action to get the collective agreement our members deserve, that\u2019s what we\u2019re prepared to do.\u201d <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UTE-PSAC MEMBERS PROVIDE OVERWHELMING STRIKE MANDATE Workers at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action on behalf of 35,000 workers represented by the Union of Taxation Employees and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. \u201cOur members have sent a strong message to CRA,\u201d said Chris Aylward, PSAC national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/00013ute.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}