It’s Day Six of one of Canada’s largest labour disruptions on record.
Tens of thousands of federal public servants represented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada remain on strike, and the union is looking to hamper access to ports today as a way to boost the walkout’s effect on the economy.
Seeing as how that’s how so many of the goods that stock local shelves come to us, we will likely feel it here in a few days.
National President Chris Aylward says Ottawa presented an offer Saturday afternoon, which the union countered with its own proposal that same day.
Yet the office of Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says it made a second proposal Saturday that the union had not responded to by late Sunday.
The strike continues with hopes of a quick resolution fading.
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