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The country’s largest public service union wants the federal government to compensate its members for the pain and suffering inflicted by the Phoenix pay fiasco.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada resumed bargaining this week with Treasury Board officials on a new three-year contract for 90,000 public servants.

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The union has asked for a 3.75-per-cent wage increase in each of those three years, along with a Phoenix compensation package and a public inquiry into the introduction of the problem-plagued pay system in 2016.

“We’re looking for recognition that basically all employees have been affected by the Phoenix pay fiasco,” said Greg McGillis, regional executive vice-president for the National Capital Region.

Symptomatic of that fiasco, he said, is the fact that whatever wage increase is negotiated is certain to add to the backlog of payroll complaints.

Last year, more than 8,000 new pay complaints were generated when the government implemented a dozen new collective agreements.