The threat of a walkout described as historic which hovers over the federal government apparatus – 155,000 civil servants now have a strike mandate in hand to be activated at the appropriate time – also has the far from trivial particularity of being the first potential major conflict in this era of hybrid work. A contemporary scenario that poses certain management issues, at a time when the union indicates that staying at home will not be an option and that picketing in person will be required to hope to receive its compensation.
