(Montreal) Some CPEs in the Montreal and Laval region will be affected by strike days on May 3, unless last-minute negotiations are resolved by then.
Posted at 6:21 a.m.
60 Early Childhood Centers that manage 83 facilities would be affected.
The Montreal and Laval CPE Workers’ Union, attached to the CSN, has already given itself a 10-day strike mandate to be exercised at the appropriate time. May 3 would therefore be the first of four consecutive strike days.
Hope remains, however, since a final conciliation meeting must take place on Thursday with the employer party and the union party.
By announcing its strike days in this way, even before the holding of the last chance conciliation meeting, the union wants to increase the pressure on the employers’ association. The strike could therefore be canceled if there was an unblocking during the conciliation meeting.
Last winter, there was indeed an agreement on the renewal of the collective agreements, at the national level, with the union organizations that represent the workers in the CPEs. However, the employers’ association concerned, in Montreal and Laval, did not sit at this national negotiating table. She therefore wants to negotiate her own collective agreement.