A return to class this week for many students remains unlikely as the Autonomous Federation of Education (FAE) announced that it would continue its indefinite general strike this week, saying it had already made major concessions and asserting that its members “have been cheated.”
The FAE nevertheless hoped that its counter-offer submitted Thursday morning would unblock the negotiations. “We returned [aux tables de négociations] late Saturday afternoon and we talked about the composition of the class, and to our great dismay the management side asked us to make further progress, to seek other mandates on our federative council, launched the president, Mélanie Hubert, during a press conference Monday morning. However, this is not what the government has been saying since November 23. »
“We made a very big concession by considering opening up local agreements, and the members of the FAE were cheated,” she insisted.
Work nevertheless resumed Monday morning with “a new operation” and resolving the labor conflict before the holidays remains “a realistic objective,” she added. “It makes no sense for a conflict like this to continue,” she said. In the end, at the end of the week, we lost precious time. »
The 66,500 members of the FAE have been on strike since November 23. The FAE said it had demonstrated the “flexibility” requested by the Legault government, by proposing an assignment mechanism ensuring that the greatest number of teachers had a position in June.
The composition of the class is now “the key” to the negotiation, underlined the president of the FAE.
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