NEW: Federal labour board raises concerns about 'major irregularities' in PSAC strike vote ottnews
The federal labour relations board raised "significant concerns" about "major irregularities" in the strike vote by 120,000 federal public servants, but has ruled the issues would not have changed the results.
In January, PSAC announced a strike vote would be held between Feb. 22 and April 19 for 120,000 members of four bargaining units. On March 6, the union decided to revise the voting period to end on April 11 to ensure that the vote would be completed before mediated talks with the Treasury Board. The labour board report says PSAC informed employees in the bargaining units by email about the voting period and information on how to vote. Approximately 15,000 employees received information about the strike vote by mail because the union did not have their email addresses.
"The new voting period was simply embedded in electronic communications that did not expressly announce the highly significant fact that the voting period had changed," the board said.
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