The union representing Canada’s border agents will soon start voting to ratify a new tentative labor deal.
The agreement between the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) and Canada’s Treasury Board was reached on June 11, following a week of mediated talks. Details of the deal were released on June 14, with border agents getting a 14.8% wage increase over four years, retroactive to June 2022. According to PSAC, those rates exceed increases that will be handed out to several other law enforcement agencies across Canada over that period, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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The agreement still needs to approved by union members. A vote will take place between June 20 and July 4, with the new pay rates and retroactive payments going into effect within 180 days of ratification.
The deal was reached in the midst of a looming strike, which was initially slated to start on June 6. That date was pushed back to June 12 to allow for more time to negotiate, before the two sides ultimately came to a tentative agreement with a day to spare.
