'They want a fair deal': Thousands of federal workers hit Edmonton streets as part of cross-country job action

'What do we want?' shouted a woman wearing a bright vest with the word 'solidarity' written across the back, marching along a downtown Edmonton sidewalk early Wednesday morning. 'Contracts!' dozens of other federal workers shouted back at her.

"What do we want?" shouted a woman wearing a bright vest with the word "solidarity" written across the back, marching along a downtown Edmonton sidewalk early Wednesday morning. 

some 155,000 federal public servants across the country are striking over locked negotiations between the federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The union is calling the strike action one of the largest in Canadian history.