The salary increases negotiated between the Common Front and the Legault government amount to 17.4% over five years, confirmed the inter-union grouping after the information was released by its own website.
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This is what is found in the proposed agreement in principle concluded with the government on December 28, recognized Wednesday the union alliance, which represents 420,000 health and education workers, in a communication on its website in the middle of the day.
A purchasing power protection clause covering the last three years of the collective agreement has also been provided, according to the organization, which prides itself on having made “significant gains” and won “numerous improvements in working conditions » while avoiding “major setbacks”.
Improvements concerning group insurance, vacations, parental rights, the attraction and retention of specialized workers and psychologists have also been agreed, we learned.
All the details of the offer, which must still be approved by the members, will be sent to them “around January 7”.
Leak
Until now, practically nothing had filtered out of this draft agreement, which came after 11 days of strike and a tough negotiation which monopolized political news all autumn.
However, it was a page discreetly hosted on the Common Front website on December 31 that seemed to have spilled the beans, after being spotted by Internet users on Wednesday morning, because it had been recorded on Google servers.
According to our information, it had been prepared “in case the figures were released in the coming days”.
“The desire of the Common Front has always been to first present to its members the content of the proposed agreement presented at the central table. However, in the context where the information is circulating in certain media, we wish to present to you the broad outlines constituting the hypothesis of settlement”, could we read in this notice visibly prepared in advance, which gave the highlights of the ‘agreement.
A union source confirmed to Newspaper the authenticity of the information contained in the document, which quickly began to circulate on social networks and the essence of which was finally reproduced by the Common Front on its website.
In the study
The bodies of the various unions began meeting on Wednesday to study the proposed regulation and decide on the next course of action. General meetings are anticipated in the coming weeks, during which workers will have the last word.
At the beginning of December, the Common Front rejected an overall offer of 16.7%, compared to 14.8% previously, deeming it insufficient to cover inflation.
The office of the President of the Treasury Board, Sonia LeBel, did not want to comment.
— With the collaboration of Charles Mathieu, Bureau of Investigation