Approximately 11,000 students affiliated with the Première-Seigneurie school service center in Quebec City could be deprived of bus transportation starting next Friday due to a threat of an indefinite strike called by the bus drivers’ union. Transco.
If union members and their employer do not reach an agreement by then, parents will have to provide transportation for their children to school themselves. “The majority of our establishments are affected by this situation,” indicates the School Service Center in an email addressed to its employees and obtained by Duty.
A handful of establishments out of the 52 under the leadership of the school service center would escape the walkout: Châtelaine and Place-de-l’Éveil, Petit-Prince, Beaux-Prés and Pionnière, Cap-des-Neiges, as well as the Center transport training center in Charlesbourg and the Fierbourg professional training center.
The school service center specifies that parents will be informed on Friday, before the long weekend. “We are determining with school management the impacts in our environments and the modalities, in particular to organize the arrivals and departures of students in a safe manner. »
The CSS de la Première-Seigneurie brings together approximately 31,500 students, according to the organization’s website, and covers an area that includes the boroughs of Beauport, Charlesbourg and part of La Haute-Saint-Charles. It stretches from the MRCs of Côte-de-Beaupré and Île-d’Orléans to the municipalities of Lac-Beauport, Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval du Lac-Delage .
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