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AUPE News & Updates
Member Updates
Member Update: Friday, Aug. 27, 2004
Parks Canada strike by PSAC
members continues
EDMONTON — More than 4,800 Parks Canada employees continue
to walk rotating picket lines at national parks, historic sites
and marine conservation areas across the country.
Represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the
workers are now into day 17 of their labour dispute with the federal
government agency.
The union is striking over wages, benefits and job security, the
latter concern of which surrounds the continued privatization of
public services.
Most important, however, is a 20-per-cent wage gap between operational
service workers at Parks Canada and their counterparts in the private
and public sectors.
The federal Treasury Board, the agency responsible for bargaining
with PSAC’s Parks Canada employees, has offered a wage increase
of 6.5 per cent over three years and a four per cent increase to
address the 20-per-cent wage gap.
PSAC turned down the offer, stating that ministerial executive assistants
had received a 25-per cent wage increase in December 2003, while
all senior management received raises with a majority also earning
bonuses.
Click
on the following PSAC web link for additional information on the
Parks Canada employees’ strike. |
