(Montreal) Two years after the adoption of the occupational health and safety reform, representatives of workers and injured workers continue to proclaim their dissatisfaction.
They demonstrated once again, Friday noon in front of the Complexe Desjardins in Montreal, not far from the offices of the Commission for Standards, Equity, Health and Safety at Work (CNESST).
The Minister of Labor, Jean Boulet, had this reform adopted in September 2021, while the original laws went back 40 years. His reform had improved certain aspects, but it had disappointed the unions and organizations which defend accident victims by not placing enough emphasis on prevention, according to them.
And this is what they criticized again on Friday, two years later.
“What we are calling for is prevention mechanisms in all workplaces,” exclaimed David Bergeron-Cyr, one of the vice-presidents of the CSN.
“Even in unionized places, we have difficulty doing prevention. Imagine yourself in workplaces where there is no union. Imagine yourself in workplaces where there are foreign workers and temporary foreign workers as well,” said Denis Bolduc, general secretary of the FTQ.