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One Montreal mom has showed up every day with her children in solidarity with striking staff. Teachers 'work so hard to help kids' while facing mounting demands, she said.
The health-care workers' walkout overlaps with other strikes, meaning more than 550,000 people are on the picket line across the province this week.
A group of four unions calling itself the "common front" and representing 420,000 public sector workers, including teachers and lab technicians, launched a weeklong strike Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of employees in the health and education sectors will be off the job starting Friday. The walkout is set to overlap with other strikes by nurses and teachers.
"We were just notified today that we need to vacate the premises. Today," Kristi Westlake with Elves Filling Shelves told Global News.