We need to form rank-and-file committees in every workplace to unite public sector employees and mobilize all workers, in the province and across North America, in a political struggle to defend jobs, wages and working conditions for all.
Even as workers press for a broadening of the struggle, the unions are conspiring with the government to reach sellout agreements and scuttle the strike movement.
The corporatist union apparatuses are doing everything in their power to prevent a head-on clash between the 625,000 Quebec public sector workers and the CAQ government.
The workers who have been without contracts for nearly eight months are determined to win inflation-busting wage increases, put an end to punishing working conditions, and secure increased funding for the province’s dilapidated health and education systems.
Quebec Premier François Legault and his ministers have made a flurry of reactionary policy decisions and announcements targeting broad sections of the working class.