New offers from Quebec affecting the working conditions of teachers, nurses and psychologists have fallen flat. The Treasury Board even had to send them by e-mail to the unions, who wanted to negotiate at the negotiating tables themselves, and not within the discussion forums where Quebec wanted to submit them.
In a press briefing on Wednesday morning, the President of the Treasury Board Sonia LeBel admitted that since the unions did not show up at the discussion forums, she had to send them by email her “new offers” concerning certain working conditions for nurses. , teachers and psychologists.
The minister evaluates her offers at $700 million. They relate to the addition of classroom aids to lighten the workload of teachers and to increased overall remuneration for psychologists.
For nurses, the new offer provides for more leave and a “substantial bonus” for those who agree to work from Friday to Monday, under certain conditions.
But the reception was cold, given the process. “We receive that like a ton of rocks,” exclaimed in an interview the president of the FTQ, Magali Picard. She says she is disappointed with the “amateurism” of the Quebec government, which has not tabled its offers before the actual negotiating teams, as it should.
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