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Quebec education unions say that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance learning should never be favoured because it has a significant impact on children and teachers after a study.
MONTREAL The Ministry of Education is unable to draw even a preliminary portrait of the tutoring program that was announced on Jan. 8 and launched on Jan. 27 by Minister Jean-Francois Roberge. A month later, it is still unclear how many candidates have registered to become tutors on the Answer Present platform or how many of them have been hired. It is also unclear how many students have been referred for tutoring, and how many hours of tutoring have been offered so far. The information is not yet available, public relations officer Bryan St-Louis said after multiple requests from The Canadian Press.
MONTREAL Other unions in the Quebec education sector are preparing to vote on a strike mandate, this time at the FTQ. The CSN, however, is not there yet. The largest labour organization in education, the CSQ, kicked the ball off earlier this week by announcing that 73 per cent of its members voted in favour of a five-day strike mandate to be held at an opportune moment. CSQ President Sonia Ethier insisted that her union s members preferred to conclude an agreement on the renewal of collective agreements, and not to exercise their strike mandate. The CSQ represents the majority of elementary and secondary teachers, as well as others who teach at Quebec colleges, in addition to professionals and support staff at all levels (120,000 education members).
MONTREAL The Centrale des unions du Québec (CSQ) and its school federations have written to Minister of Education Jean-Francois Roberge and his colleague, Minister of Health Christian Dube to urge them to adopt the precautionary principle in relation to the transmission of COVID-19 by aerosol in schools. In a letter dated Friday and also addressed to the Quebec director of public health Horacio Arruda, the unions said they have been calling for improved ventilation in schools for years. We have been calling for decades for action to be taken to ensure better air quality in our schools and centres, but due to austerity policies, we are now under an obligation to open the classroom windows in the middle of winter, which is completely inconceivable, the unions said in their letter.