(Montreal) Rare fact in the world of work: Quebec presents a new collective agreement decree, specifically for road flaggers — a very dangerous job.
Posted at 2:26 p.m.
The Minister of Labor and Employment, Jean Boulet, has just published in the Official Gazette a draft decree affecting road flaggers.
Such a decree is a kind of collective agreement that grants minimum working conditions to all workers in a given sector, whether they are unionized or not. It also protects employers against competition, by standardizing working conditions.
In fact, the minister will modify the security officer decree, to which road flaggers are currently subject, to give flaggers their own collective agreement decree.
“The road sign industry has wanted to adopt a collective agreement decree for several years,” confirmed Minister Boulet.
Such a decree is negotiated by a trade union and an employer in the sector, then the working conditions are then extended to the others.
For the Steelworkers union, affiliated with the FTQ, this is “very good news”. The decree will make it possible to “protect even those who are not unionized”, underlined in an interview Martin L’Abbée, representative of the Steelworkers.