Treasury Board president looks for 'creative solutions' as PSAC escalates strike action
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Striking federal public servants escalated actions on picket lines across the national capital region on Thursday, limiting access to federal buildings and temporarily disrupting traffic on an interprovincial bridge.
Striking federal public servants escalated actions on picket lines across the national capital region on Thursday, limiting access to federal buildings and temporarily disrupting traffic on an interprovincial bridge.
Meantime, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says federal government negotiators are looking to find "creative solutions" to end the strike and get federal workers back on the job.
"I am trying to really find a way. I know Canadians and public servants are feeling the impact of the strike," Fortier said.
"We respect, of course, the strike, but we have to find a way to a resolution. As I said, trying to find how we can get to creative solutions to get to a deal."
This is day 9 of the strike by 155,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, affecting services under the Treasury Board and the Canada Revenue Agency.
"We are escalating actions; we are escalating picket line postures here in the NCR and across the country," Alex Silas, PSAC regional executive vice-president for the national capital region, said on in a video on Facebook.
Silas says PSAC workers "shut down" the main building at Tunney's Pasture and "we are controlling entry" by public service workers. Workers were required to wait for a few minutes before entering the office.
