Nurses, Health Workers Set to Join Other Quebec Public Sector Workers on Picket Lines
Published on December 11, 2023
About 80,000 unionized Quebec nurses and other health-care workers will be joining fellow public sector workers already on strike since last week. The health workers are members of the FIQ, who will begin a four-day strike on Dec. 11, joining workers from four unions representing 420,000 Quebec public sector workers who began a weeklong strike on Friday. Those workers include teachers, education support staff and lab technicians and are members of a group of four unions that calls itself the “common front.” The unions rejected the government’s most recent contract offer, which includes a salary increase of 12.7 percent over five years, saying it doesn’t keep pace with inflation....