(Montreal) The three or four day strike, which varies according to union organization, began Monday morning in several childcare centers in Quebec, while the main union federations will ask their members, later this week, to equip themselves with an indefinite general strike mandate.
Meanwhile, Quebec defends its offer made to union organizations that represent workers in early childhood centers.
Quebec has chosen to give priority to educators because they are underpaid, by its own admission, and there is a shortage of educators. It therefore offers them larger salary increases.
But Quebec is not as generous to the “other” workers in childcare centers, in administration, maintenance, and the kitchen.
However, the unions insist that these workers also benefit from a “salary catch”.
In an interview with 98.5 FM Monday morning, the President of the Treasury Board, Sonia LeBel, maintained that the government was not financially able to do the same for “other” workers in childcare centers.