After three weeks of indefinite strike, the FAE announced Wednesday evening that it had finally managed to reach an agreement with the government on a global settlement proposal.
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This proposal will be presented on Thursday to the nine unions which form the Autonomous Education Federation (FAE). They will then decide whether the proposal can be considered as an agreement in principle. If applicable, it will be presented to the workers who can vote to accept or refuse it.
“We will leave it to our body to determine whether this is an agreement in principle that meets the pressing needs of teachers as well as their students,” briefly commented the president of the FAE, Mélanie Hubert. , by press release.
No details on the content of the proposed regulation have been revealed.
The FAE, which represents some 66,500 teachers spread across 12 school service centers, felt pressure to reach an agreement after 22 days of indefinite general strike, even as the various Common Front unions announced in turn agreements in recent days.
There are many points of contention between teachers’ unions and the government, ranging from class organization to workload to the question of salaries.