While the Minister of Families, Mathieu Lacombe, praised his government, a government that wants, “for the first time in twenty years”, to solve the problems in daycare services, the early childhood educators still walked away.
The Minister of Families was the subject of an arrest on Friday by the opposition parties, who tried to get him to talk about the content of the negotiation of collective agreements with the various unions of workers in the childcare centers. childhood.
Minister Lacombe did not want to go into detail and simply repeated that his government was proposing a salary catch-up for educators and that the negotiations were not over.
He admitted that educators “are not paid enough”, “not up to their skills”.
Meanwhile, CPE workers who are members of unions from the Federation of Early Childhood Workers, affiliated with the CSQ, held another day of strike action on Friday.
They also listened to the minister’s interpellation in cinemas in Quebec, at the invitation of the FIPEQ. And they were not impressed with the minister’s responses, based on the comments that were reported.