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AUDIO: Canadian media out of step with public on PSAC strike (Part 1)
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AUDIO: Canadian media out of step with public on PSAC strike (Part 1)
Despite the anti-labour press onslaught, more Canadians than not support most of the public servants' demands.
Jeremy Appel
Apr 27, 2023
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This is the first part of my critique of media coverage of the PSAC strike. The second part is for paid subscribers only.

PSAC members picket Parliament Hill on April 26. (Facebook/PSAC - AFPC)

Read part one, and part two if you’re a paid subscriber, here:

Canadian media is out of step with public on PSAC strike

Jeremy Appel
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Apr 25
Canadian media is out of step with public on PSAC strike

It’s quite remarkable that despite the corporate media onslaught of the past week against striking federal civil servants, the Canadian public appears to be broadly on board with their union’s demands. According to an April 21 Angus Reid poll, taken in the two days after 120,000 Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) workers walked off the job, about two-thirds of Canadians support the union’s ask for premium overtime pay. It’s shocking that unionized public servants don’t already have this.

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