Quebec Unions Representing 420,000 Public Sector Workers Start Weeklong Strike

Published on December 8, 2023

Unions representing 420,000 Quebec public sector workers are beginning a weeklong strike on Dec. 8. The workers, including teachers, education support staff, and lab technicians, are members of a group of unions that calls itself the “common front.” The temporary strike comes after the common front rejected the government’s most recent contract offer, which includes a salary increase of 12.7 percent over five years. It is the group’s third temporary strike since early November, and the unions say it will be the last before they launch an unlimited strike. Around 66,000 teachers who are members of a different union have been on strike since Nov. 23, while 80,000 nurses and other health-care workers will begin a four-day strike on Dec. 11....

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