(Montreal) Prime Minister François Legault summoned the media on Sunday to provide an update on the renewal of collective agreements.
Mr. Legault will be accompanied, in the afternoon in Montreal, by the Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, and the President of the Treasury Board, Sonia LeBel.
It would discuss the progress made in the education network following the last round of negotiations.
In health, negotiations are continuing, but in the presence of a conciliator, with the Interprofessional Health Federation (FIQ), and the climate is rather tense.
The Quebec government says in particular that it wants to obtain more “flexibility” from nurses, that is to say, to be able to move them between care units, or even establishments, according to needs. The FIQ denounces that these are rather compulsory trips, under penalty of disciplinary sanctions in the event of refusal.
The FIQ represents 80,000 nurses, practical nurses, respiratory therapists and clinical perfusionists throughout Quebec.