"...No one was hurt in the fracas, but there were more displays of anger in the days that followed. Strikers snarled traffic in downtown Ottawa and Hull, closed the Portage Bridge for 90 minutes and disrupted transit services by picketing Transitway stations.
Back to work legislation was passed late on Oct. 1, 1991, effectively ending the strike and suspending the collective bargaining process. The Treasury Board held firm on its proposal to freeze public servants’ wages in 1991 and kept the 1992 increase to three per cent.
Many striking workers returned on Oct. 3 having gained little and feeling bitter towards both the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government. The workers lost three weeks’ wages, not a small thing for the clerks and secretaries who earned $24,000 a year at the time. The strike cost the union about $16 million, which then had to borrow money from other unions and banks. Union members got a $60-a-year dues increase to rebuild PSAC’s strike fund. Hundreds of PSAC members who crossed picket lines were suspended by their union...."
https://ottawacitizen.com/feature/what-happens-if-155000-federal-public-service-workers-go-on-strike
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