Workers at Canada Revenue Agency are in a legal strike position as their union prepares to return to the bargaining table next month.
Members of the Union of Taxation Employees voted in June to give their bargaining team a mandate to strike. The CRA employees people across Canada, including about 1,700 in Sudbury.
They have been without a contract since 2012.
“The UTE/PSAC bargaining team has secured dates to return to the table with CRA for August 8-11, to try and negotiate a fair contract,” said the union's national president, Robert Campbell, on the union's website.
“This is what standing up and returning a strike mandate has done for the members. We will need to show management over the coming weeks that we support the team by taking actions and putting up signs of support in the offices.
“We are hopeful that we can come to an agreement, but we will continue to prepare for strike actions should negotiations fail to achieve an agreement. Locals should continue all planned preparations and activities in the interim.”
