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Originally Posted by belsarius
So a few points which might help clarify some things.
- For a lot of these strikes with the government, they will still continue to receive their normal paychecks (not required, just standard practice in some cases) and after the contract is finished they will clawback the overpayments during the strike period. Union cautions these people to save as much as they can as they will have to return it, but also it ensures people can still pay their bills on time.
- Strike pay is based on normal working conditions, if you normally work over 20 hours you will receive the $75/day up to 5 days a week. This is higher for workers in the Territories, and lower if you normally work less than 20 hours a week.
- To receive strike pay you must be present and have your barcode scanned in and out and must be on the line for a minimum of 4 hours to receive it.
- There are some employees who are deemed essential and cannot participate in the strike. They can walk the line before/after work or lunch breaks and are warned to not do work that is not normally theirs.
- Strikers are to let these essential workers through, which means they can impede people. I haven't been part of a Federal picket line so I don't know how much of that is done, but in other strikes we have definitely been ensuring that scabs have a hard time getting in.
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On that first point, aren't a lot of these settled retroactively? Does that mean that there's no real overpayment in a lot of these cases or is that just the "raise" that ends up retroactive and as a result it doesn't really even out (necessarily)?