P.A. corrections officers protest pay system
Nearly 100 members of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) convened in Prince Albert this morning to march on the office of M.P. Randy Hoback.
The union workers carried signs and sounded whistles and sirens as they marched in protest of the Phoenix pay system, which has resulted in many payment delays or non-payment of wages for federal civil servants.
Phoenix was introduced by the federal Liberals this past spring as an attempt to automate pay systems for the more than 250,000 Canadian public servants through a single nationwide system in Miramichi, N.B. Unfortunately, the system has suffered major technical issues leaving many public employees without pay for months at a time.
“It’s been nothing but problems. Our members aren’t getting paid,” Boyd Ward, president of the Saskatchewan Penitentiary Local, told paNOW. “When they do get paid it’s a portion of their wage as an emergency salary advance. It has to end. There’s no end in sight.”