Twenty years after PS grievance settled, pay equity falls short: Union

The year was 1999 and for more than two decades, the Canadian Human Rights Act had legislated the principal of equal pay for men and women doing work of equal value in federally-regulated workplaces.
Despite this, the Public Service Alliance of Canada had spent the better part of those decades in the trenches of what was then the largest and longest pay equity dispute in North America. The union was fighting to close the wage gap for tens of thousands of secretaries, clerks, librarians and other