‘We need fairness, we need equity’: striking workers at AG’s office call on feds to implement wage grid

Employees and supporters recently picketed in front of the Wellington Street building where Auditor General Karen Hogan released two reports and addressed the media in a virtual press conference on Dec. 9.

Members of the Audit Services Group in the Office of the Auditor General are pictured picketing outside the Sir John A. Macdonald building on Dec. 9, as Auditor General Karen Hogan held a virtual press conference. Without a new contract since 2018, the group represents 170 employees currently on strike, the first in the history of the office. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

December 15, 2021

On strike for two-and-a-half weeks now, more than 160 employees in the Audit Services Group working at the Office of the Auditor General are calling on the government to address pay equity issues and establish a wage grid that would bring them in line with comparable groups within the public service...

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