Labour, public service experts say support for strike not guaranteed, but enough to spur feds into action

A union’s power is 'based on its capacity to withhold labour and to disrupt the normal operations,' says McGill professor Barry Eidlin. But former Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick says the mechanics of striking in the new world of hybrid work is 'unexplored.'

National president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada Chris Aylward says his members’ wages have been 'stuck in neutral while the cost of living continues to soar,' as more than 150,000 federal workers are in a strike position.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 17, 2023

Unions representing more than 155,000 public service workers flexed their muscles in voting for strike mandates in the last two weeks, and although public service and labour experts say strike action is avoidable, the threat is enough to bring the government to the table to ...

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