Public service union agrees to contract changes to help fix Phoenix pay problems

This is how serious the federal government’s Phoenix pay mess has become.
Public Services Minister Carla Qualtrough earlier this month asked federal unions to help expedite a fix by simplifying contract language in dozens of collective agreements.
Debi Daviau, president of the 57,000-member Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, revealed Friday that she agreed.
In doing so, however, she offered one important caveat – that any revisions to PIPSC’s collective agr