Called to comment on the failure of talks with the Interprofessional Health Federation (FIQ), the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, let it be known on Tuesday that his objectives in terms of staff mobility “have not changed”.
“What we want is a certain flexibility to be able to serve our patients well and to have a correct environment for our employees,” declared Mr. Dubé during the study of his ministry’s budgetary appropriations.
The spokesperson for Québec solidaire (QS) in health, Vincent Marissal, had just stated that the negotiation with the FIQ “broke down at the precise point where you wanted it to happen, that is to say mobility , that’s what’s blocking.”
“No need to be Nostradamus,” he added. It’s about having two or three contacts to know that it wasn’t happening, particularly in urban areas. »
Mr. Marissal then asked Mr. Dubé what he planned to do. “Are you coming back with this?” Is this a “deal breaker”, a sine qua non condition for you? » he wanted to know.
Mr. Dubé responded that “ [ses] objectives have not changed” and that he was going to give the FIQ time to analyze the results of its vote, “because they did not vote the same way everywhere”.
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