Public Service Labour Relations Board: International Students

international students: The job action by the striking foreign affairs officers, now in its fourth month, will likely drag on for weeks, if not months, as the stalling of visa processing overseas for international students, tourists and immigrants continues, according to The Star. In July, the union made a binding arbitration offer to the federal government, which later countered with a set of preconditions that the striking officers rejected and It remains unknown how soon Canadas visa posts abroad will be back in normal operations as a labour tribunal reserves its decision on a bad-faith bargaining complaint against Ottawa. On Wednesday, the Public Service Labour Relations Board held a three-hour hearing in Ottawa into the complaint by the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers PAFSO that the Treasury Board had bargained in bad faith. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.