Some 91% of federal public servants who are members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada “strongly oppose” the directive to return to work in the office three days a week.
The large pan-Canadian union of federal public servants surveyed its members to find out what they thought of the Treasury Board directive imposing three days of work in the office starting at the beginning of September.
Some 65,000 members responded to the survey, the PSAC reported in a message to its members. And 91% “strongly oppose the new directive” on telework.
Treasury Board President Anita Anand had argued that the situation would change little, in practice, since we were going from “two to three days a week in the office” to three days a week in the office.
But since then, federal civil servant unions have been campaigning against this return to the office three days a week.
The PSAC argues that during the last collective agreement negotiations, it had included a letter of understanding in which the federal government committed to collaborating with the unions on the issue of telework.
It is using this letter of understanding to file grievances against the Treasury Board and has invited its members to file individual grievances.
