(Montreal) The Government of Quebec will finally face a larger common front for the next public sector negotiations: the APTS has just jumped on the train.
Posted at 9:07
The common front has so far included the three major labor federations: the CSN, the CSQ and the FTQ
With the APTS, the common front will represent some 420,000 union members, said Robert Comeau, president of the Alliance of Professional and Technical Personnel in Health and Social Services, in an interview.
Mr. Comeau reports that its members had given the mandate to form the broadest possible alliance to tackle the problems of the health and social services network, such as the shortage of workers, work overload and remuneration.
During the last public sector negotiations, there was no inter-union common front. The APTS had formed an alliance with the FIQ, the major union organization for nurses, but this alliance did not last.
The APTS has 60,000 members in various health establishments and youth centres. They are, for example, medical imaging technologists, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, psychoeducators, dieticians-nutritionists.