(Montreal) The nurses and nursing assistants of Héma-Québec, members of the CSN and CSQ unions, planned to demonstrate on Sunday in Montreal and Quebec.
These members of the Union of nurses and nursing assistants of Héma-Québec (CSN) and the Union of nursing staff of Héma-Québec (SPI-CSQ) are demanding pay parity with their colleagues in the public network.
They have been without a contract for almost four years, according to their respective unions, and denounce “the lack of respect for their employer in the context of negotiations for the renewal of their collective agreement”.
According to the CSN and the SPI-CSQ, these nurses have received “no salary increase since 2018”, while “the chief executive of Héma-Québec had a salary increase of 30% between 2019 and 2020”, which the unions call it shocking in the circumstances.
The CSQ union has already held a four-day strike out of its 10-day mandate, Nancy Landry, president of the nursing staff union (CSQ), told The Canadian Press in a previous interview ten days ago. .
The CSN union was then evaluating the possibility of “getting itself a new strike mandate”, added Vanessa Poirier, president of the union of nurses and nursing assistants (CSN).
As this is the health sector, any strike would be subject to the essential services provisions of the Labor Code.