Public service union protests workplace bat problem, other office conditions
Posted Oct 29, 2019 10:55:00 AM.
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A noon-hour protest in Hull aims to draw attention to what a public service employees' union says are urgent health and safety issues in a major government complex.
The Public Service Alliance of Canada plans to campaign outside the Terrasses de la Chaudière, Tuesday. The union is frustrated with what it calls a lack of action on multiple issues at the Terrasses complex.
“The government departments in that building are ultimately responsible for the health and safety of the worker, no matter who they conduct business with,” said Kevin King, Union of National Employees president.
The union plans to release video showing a bat found inside the Terrasses complex. King says the bat problem is not new.
“In 2018 there are issues coming out of the building, with respect to bat feces and stuff like that, and bats being in the building,” King told 1310 NEWS.
The union says it has received updates about some of the work order process, but that its members are still waiting for Gatineau MP Steve MacKinnon, PSPC and management in the complex to follow through on PSAC's demand for a complex-wide union and management committee to address ongoing health and safety issues.
Union members plan to hold a noon-hour event, Tuesday, at the corner of Eddy and Portage.
