Many daycare centers in Quebec are launching pressure tactics on Monday morning by opening their doors later for four weeks.
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Thus, family daycare services affiliated with the FIPEQ-CSQ will welcome children thirty minutes later every morning of the week starting Monday.
The delayed openings will continue gradually over four weeks, reaching doors opening two hours later in the fourth week.
CPEs affiliated with the CSQ will have delayed opening hours on Fridays only for four weeks. This schedule change will begin on November 15, next Friday.
Around 12,000 early childhood workers are mobilizing to demand, in particular, better conditions and better pay.
“We are aiming for a regulation offering fair working and salary conditions for the good of members, while the network struggles to recruit and retain a qualified workforce to support the full development of children,” indicates the Federation of Stakeholders. in early childhood of Quebec (FIPEQ-CSQ) in a press release.
Early childhood workers have been without a collective agreement since March 2023.
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