2024 Priority Actions
Every year, December is the month the Federation reflects on the priorities for the year ahead. This reflection allows us to renew our union engagement and to agree on the best direction for the future.
Unsurprisingly, the following three priorities were adopted by your union delegates for 2024:
- Conclude negotiations for the new collective agreement and deploy the new work contract
- Work that will stem from the adoption of Bill 15
- Pass a law on safe ratios
Conclude negotiations for the new collective agreement and deploy the new work contract
Of course, our first priority will be to conclude negotiations for the new collective agreement and to deploy the new work contract.
We spent the fall season building pressure to obtain substantial gains for healthcare professionals. In the coming year, we will have to focus our energy on turning these gains into significant changes in your daily lives.
It will be crucial to quickly deploy the new negotiated measures. You deserve concrete solutions to your work overload and personal life-work balance issues starting now.
Work that will stem from the adoption of Bill 15
Bill 15 will have impacts on, among other things, labour relations in the field, as well as on the very foundation of our organization.
For the umpteenth time, the government is launching a massive governance reform in health and social services. This type of work is always filled with promises to improve access to care. Unfortunately, none of the 1,180 articles and the 500 amendments it contains actually seem promising for care.
The Federation will monitor the work closely and ensure that the consequences of the Bill don’t leave anyone behind.
Pass a law on safe ratios
This is THE structuring measure that could have a considerable effect on reducing exhaustion at work and improving attraction and retention within our professions. By claiming it is impossible to set up ratios at a time when there’s a workforce shortage, the government is trying to keep us in a false narrative.
However, the government created legislation on prohibiting independent labour within a context of dependence on agency workers. Let’s remind the government that the current shortage is structural and that it is high time that it be clear in its intentions toward healthcare professionals.