(Montreal) The employers’ association of CPEs in Montreal and Laval announced late Thursday evening that they had reached an agreement in principle with the CPE workers’ union.
Posted yesterday at 4:50 p.m.
This agreement will make it possible to avoid the union strike of early childhood educators scheduled for next week.
A conciliation meeting was held Thursday afternoon between the union and the employers’ association.
Despite the agreement, the employers’ association said it was “bitterly disappointed with the union’s total lack of openness to settle anything related to management issues, particularly concerning the quality and stability of services”, in a press release released Thursday evening.
The Montreal and Laval CPE Workers’ Union had given itself a 10-day strike mandate to be exercised at the appropriate time. He had announced that he would hold four of these strike days starting next Tuesday.
There are 60 unions that manage 83 facilities, in Montreal and Laval, which could have been affected by a four-day strike starting next Tuesday.
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 posed a problem, concerning guarantees regarding the length of the work week, 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”.