ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½

Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Revenue Agency, union reach tentative deal, ending strike of 35,000 workers

CRA employees represented by PSAC's Union of Taxation Employees were still on strike two days after the federal tax-filing deadline
psac-strike-1
Hundreds of civil servants gathered outside Richmond’s Service ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Office for one of the largest strikes in ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½â€™s history.

The public-sector union representing ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Revenue Agency employees has struck a tentative deal with the federal government, ending a strike of 35,000 workers just after the tax season wrapped up.

The announcement of a prospective agreement comes after the government and Public Service Alliance of ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ came to separate deals that ended a strike of more than 120,000 other public servants.

CRA employees represented by PSAC's Union of Taxation Employees were still on strike two days after the federal tax-filing deadline.

The union threatened earlier today that it would plan to send its members to disrupt a Liberal party convention in Ottawa on Thursday if the employer didn't table a "fair" deal. 

The separate agreements that PSAC negotiated with the government included a 11.5 per cent wage increase over four years.

Earlier in the negotiations, the tax employees' union had been pushing for a 20.5 per cent increase over a three-year period.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 4, 2023.

The Canadian Press