(Montreal) After the CSQ, it is the turn of the FTQ to complain about the “evasiveness” used by Quebec to “shovel forward” the negotiation of collective agreements in childcare services.
The CSQ complained that it submitted its requests last September and that real negotiations have still not started with Quebec. It is now threatening to seek mandates for heavy pressure tactics from its members in the CPEs starting at the end of April, if Quebec does not submit its offers by then.
Earlier this week, the president of the Treasury Board, Sonia LeBel, justified the delay by the fact that she had to wait until the CSN and FTQ unions had also submitted their requests before Quebec submitted its offer to all.
However, the Quebec Union of Service Employees (SQEES), affiliated with the FTQ, affirms, like the CSQ, that its demands have been ready for several months and that there have not yet been any real negotiations with Quebec.
“It’s been months since the negotiations have been shoveled forward by the Ministry of Family,” complains Sylvie Nelson, president of the SQEES.
Like the CSQ, the FTQ affirms that even if Quebec is not ready to submit its salary offer, nothing prevents it from starting negotiations on the normative clauses with the union organizations concerned.