Last spring, the FIQ launched a new platform enabling its affiliated unions to administer their own website for free. The purpose of the platform was to provide new unions, formed from the merging of the CISSSs and CIUSSSs, with tools to communicate with their members over larger territories.

After the Syndicat des professionnelles en soins infirmiers et cardio-respiratoires du Bas-Saint-Laurent (FIQ) filed 40 grievances, the employer agreed to pay healthcare professionals time-and-a-half for training sessions, if their hours met the criteria for overtime.

The BBQ tour for the Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de santé de l’Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal was held from August 21 to September 8.

The Centre Cloutier-du Rivage’s emergency room in the Cap-de-la-Madeleine sector will open with only partial medical coverage for the evening shift for an undetermined period. The Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec (FIQ-SPSMCQ) got wind of the news today.

While the public is off enjoying the summer, the Abitibi-Témiscamingue CISSS discreetly makes major changes to its service offer. The FIQ urges elected officials and the public to ask questions and stand up for their right to safe, quality healthcare services regardless of what region they live in.

FIQ Vice-President Linda Lapointe handed out Mr. Freeze popsicles as part of an initiative organized by the Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de Chaudière-Appalaches in support of the healthcare professionals at the CHSLD-CLSC de Lac Etchemin.