{"id":943831,"date":"2026-10-23T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T23:46:30","slug":"ottawa-disappointed-after-union-announces-strike-votes-for-120000-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/943831\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa &#8216;disappointed&#8217; after union announces strike votes for 120,000 workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government says it\u2019s \u201cdisappointed\u201d after Canada\u2019s largest federal public service union announced 120,000 workers will take part in nationwide strike votes starting next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Service Alliance of Canada says voting will take place from Nov. 16 to Jan. 22.<\/p>\n<p>The union and Treasury Board have been in contract negotiations for a year and a half and PSAC in May called a government wage offer of less than one per cent per year \u201cinsulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says it\u2019s \u201cdisappointed\u201d the union has chosen to proceed with a strike vote while the groups are still working through the mediation process.<\/p>\n<p>The government says that for the past year and a half, it has engaged with the union on all of its proposals and several days of mediation recently led to progress on certain points.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says it respects the right to strike but the best deals are reached at the bargaining table.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Winnipeg as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=winnipeg.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792799190_619_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government says it\u2019s \u201cdisappointed\u201d after Canada\u2019s largest federal public service union announced 120,000 workers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,3717,47,20739,714],"class_list":["post-943831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-labour","tag-national","tag-ottawa","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}