Montreal parents got a couple of contradictory emails this week, after it was announced that Quebec teachers were cancelling their second strike.
Unions had authorized an afternoon strike this Tuesday beginning at 2:30, with some school boards responding by canceling afternoon classes for elementary school and cutting the day short for high schoolers.
But the strike has been canceled after it was announced that the cartel of federations negotiating with the government have asked local unions to vote to approve or reject a sectorial proposal.
In a video Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT) president Heidi Yetman thanked teachers âfor being out in full forceâ at the last innovative strike day on April 14 where teachers started work about an hour late, and which â across Montreal ¬â garnered much media attention and support from parents and the general public. âIt was an uplifting dayâ says Yetman, adding that the strike action accelerated
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The strike planned for the afternoon of Tuesday, April 27 by the Fédération des syndicats de l’enseignement (FSE-CSQ) and the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT) has been suspended while unions bring a sectoral regulation proposal to their members to determine whether they find the offer acceptable.
In a press release the FSE-CSQ and QPAT explained the proposal cannot be considered an agreement in principle, despite progress, as some of their priorities are not met.
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Quebec Teachers unions suspend major strike
More than 73,000 teachers were supposed to go on strike next Tuesday. Unions have put those plans on hold. They re giving members time to look at the government s latest proposal.
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Posted: Apr 24, 2021 12:17 PM ET | Last Updated: April 24
Teachers went on strike on April 14, to express dissatisfaction with negotiations with the Quebec government that have gone on for more than a year. Another strike had been scheduled for next week. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)
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The collective agreements of more than half a million workers in Quebec’s health, education and broader public sector expired on March 31, 2020. Since then, the right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has stepped up its efforts to impose new contracts that maintain the low wages and precarious conditions of recent decades, while intensifying the dismantling of public services.
The government’s hard line against public sector workers is combined with an aggressive back-to-school and back-to-work drive in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Putting profits before lives, this campaign has allowed the coronavirus to circulate freely and infect tens of thousands of health and education workers, who have been left unprotected while enduring punishing workloads.