Union for border services workers tables wage demands as bargaining with CBSA continues

The Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Customs and Immigration Union have presented their wage demands as bargaining with Canada Border Services Agency and Treasury Board continues.  

In a news release Tuesday, the union said PSAC-CIU met with the government on June 13-16 to continue talks aimed at reaching a new collective agreement.  “After conducting a comprehensive analysis of compensation and working conditions within the law enforcement community, we presented our wage demands,” the release said.

PSAC is proposing wages increases of 3.5 per cent, 3.0 per cent and 2.0 per cent for 2022, 2023 and 2024 on top of additional adjustments.

PSAC’s Border Services (FB) bargaining team is an occupational group of more than 8,600 CBSA employees who work in the inspection and control of people and goods entering Canada. Their collective agreement expired in June 2022.  The team, which postponed negotiations earlier this year to show support for peers during the public service strike, is expected back at the bargaining table in September, according to PSAC.

This is an excerpt from the Ottawa Citizen