(Montreal) The last-ditch conciliation meeting continued late Thursday afternoon between the union of CPE workers in Montreal and Laval and the employers’ association, with the aim of avoiding a strike.
Posted at 4:50 p.m.
The Union of CPE Workers of Montreal and Laval has already given itself a 10-day strike mandate to be exercised at the appropriate time. He has already announced that he will hold four of these strike days starting next Tuesday.
However, a final conciliation meeting with the management and union parties was scheduled for early Thursday afternoon. And it was still in progress at the end of the afternoon.
On the union side, they claim to have received a proposal.
These are 60 unions that manage 83 facilities, in Montreal and Laval, which should theoretically be affected by four days of strike starting next Tuesday, if there is no outcome by then.
The collective agreements that concern all the unions that represent the workers in the CPEs in Quebec had, however, been renewed last December.
However, the employers’ association of the Montreal and Laval region did not sit at the national bargaining table at that time. She wants to negotiate her own collective agreement.
Three clauses still pose a problem, concerning guarantees regarding the length of the workweek, the role of the work team and the selection and tenure committee.
The employers’ association is keen on this, in the name of the operating efficiency of a CPE and for reasons of accountability. The union is also keen on it, saying that giving it up would be a “major setback”.