(Sherbrooke) The public sector unions will disrupt the convention of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) of François Legault Saturday in Sherbrooke.
The unions grouped in a common front deplore the slowness of the negotiations in progress and reject the employers’ offers.
The four organizations, FTQ, CSN, CSQ and APTS, have every intention of making themselves heard by the hundreds of CAQ activists who will be meeting at the Center de expositions with their leader and elected government officials.
The collective agreements of 600,000 state employees expired on March 31.
Quebec has so far offered wage increases of 9% over five years, plus a lump sum of $1,000 and an amount equivalent to 2.5% reserved for “government priorities”. Quebec therefore claims to present an offer of up to 13% over five years.
The common front, for its part, is demanding a $100 per week increase or the consumer price index (CPI) plus 2% for the first year of the employment contracts, whichever formula is most advantageous for the workers, then the CPI plus 3% for the second year and CPI plus 4% for the third.