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Strike in the CPEs: a lookout organized in front of the offices of deputies on the North Shore


The strike of the early childhood centers affiliated with the FSSS – CSN continues. Until , in Sept-Îles and Baie-Comeau, educators organize lookouts in front of the offices of Kateri Champagne Jourdain and Yves Montigny.

We are on strike for three days to have better working conditions explains the president of the CPE workers’ union in Sept-Îles, François Marceau.

François Marceau during the demonstration.

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François Marceau has been an educator in CPE for over 20 years.

Photo: Radio-Canada / Alban Normandin

The question is at the heart of requests. Since the start of the labor conflict, union members in Sept-Îles have been claiming an 8 %retention bonus.

The question of leave remains also worrying for the union representative. You need a network vacationsays Marceau. If an educator from Montreal moves to Sept-Îles and that she has five weeks of vacation, she will go back to zero if she is hired here.

Gains on these two fronts could encourage retention and curb the exodus of workers to the public system, he said.

Parents stand in front of a kiosk set up by the strikers in front of the office of Minister Kateri Champagne Jourdian.

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Parents accompanied by their came to support the educators of the CPEs on strike, in Sept-Îles.

Photo : Radio-Canada / Marc-Antoine Mageau

Asked about the disturbances caused for parents, François Marceau defends the employee’s strike. According to him, it is by fighting for better conditions that the CPE network will ultimately avoid service interruptions that would penalize families.

Ten CPEs are affected by this disengagement in the region.

The Government of Quebec and the FSSSwhich is affiliated with the CSN have been negotiating in a sustained way for a few days, but have still not reached an agreement.

Quebec refused to comment on the pressure means of union members.

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