It has been several weeks since a tentative agreement on working conditions was adopted by the FIQ and FIQP delegates. However, a year and a half after the union demands were filed and a year after the end of the collective agreement, the provincial negotiations are still not finished.

With the COVID-19 pandemic and a growing number of people working from home, domestic violence has risen in Quebec and Canada. Since February 2021, at least seven women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in Quebec. Femicide has got to stop!

The APTS and FIQ bargaining teams received the latest government offers this morning, only to find that nothing has changed in 10 months.

Anger is growing among public sector workers faced with the long-standing contempt of the Legault government, which is still refusing to set the new course that is needed to restore public services. It’s been exactly a year since collective agreements came to an end for 550,000 workers providing services to Quebecers.

In the context of the health emergency, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec–FIQ and FIQP | Secteur privé had new directives adopted for stabilizing the teams in the health institutions in Québec and ensuring care continuity.

Determined to show that maintaining Order 007 is a catalyst for the labour shortage in the health network, healthcare professionals are demonstrating their frustration and denouncing the suspension of their working conditions which has lasted for 365 days.