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West Quebec schools were closed Monday and hospitals said they were running at about 90 per cent of normal activity as Quebec’s public sector unions began rotating strikes.
Service at all hospitals and schools is expected to return to normal Tuesday, though the schools will close again Wednesday.
Five boards are affected: the Western Quebec School Board and the Commissions scolaires des Draveurs, au Coeur-des-Vallées, des Portages-de-l’Outaouais and des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais.
The Commission scolaire des Draveurs, which covers most of the city of Gatineau, announced: “Child care will be closed because the staff for these services will be on strike and the classes are cancelled because the teachers’ union representatives announced that they would not pass through any picket lines.”
Other boards have posted similar notes.
Le CEGEP de l’Outaouais and CEGEP Heritage College also closed Monday and will reopen Tuesday. They haven’t made an announcement yet about Wednesday.
In the case of the CEGEPs, the faculty unions are on strike along with support and professional staff.
in locations across Quebec, the Common Front (a group of public sector unions acting together) says it plans a series of education strikes through Wednesday.
All hospitals in the region remained open, though some services were slow, and some “non-essential” appointments could be rescheduled.
If people are sick or injured Monday, “we will take care of you,” said spokeswoman Geneviève Côté at the Hôpital de Gatineau. “If you are in a car accident there will be an ambulance. They aren’t on strike.”
Hospitals will not be affected by the Wednesday strikes, she said. The next dates for strike action in the health care network are expected to be Nov. 9 and 10.
Service at Gatineau schools and hospitals is expected to return to normal Tuesday, but the schools will be closed again on Wednesday.
Three hospital unions are off the job, but not the union that represents almost all nurses, the 66,000-member Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec, and not doctors. Lab staff and technicians are mostly working, Côté said.
Those off work included nursing assistants, psychologists, social workers, a small proportion of nurses who don’t belong to the main nurses’ union and some office staff, she said.
That means some services such as phoning to make an appointment may be slowed down, and patients will have to leave voice mail and wait for a call back from a manager.
“We’re talking about a slowdown in some areas,” but anything urgent will still be open and working during the strike.
Quebec’s unions are protesting to back contract demands. They are asking for a wage increase of 13.5 per cent over three years and the government is offering three per cent.
“The government wants to carry out unprecedented attacks on the working conditions of its employees, which not only undermine their ability to deliver quality services, but might cause dramatic loss of expertise in our public networks. And the entire population of Quebec would suffer the consequences,” Jacques Létourneau said in a statement. He’s president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN).
On Tuesday the rotating strikes shift to eastern Quebec.
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Service at all hospitals and schools is expected to return to normal Tuesday, though the schools will close again Wednesday.
Five boards are affected: the Western Quebec School Board and the Commissions scolaires des Draveurs, au Coeur-des-Vallées, des Portages-de-l’Outaouais and des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais.
The Commission scolaire des Draveurs, which covers most of the city of Gatineau, announced: “Child care will be closed because the staff for these services will be on strike and the classes are cancelled because the teachers’ union representatives announced that they would not pass through any picket lines.”
Other boards have posted similar notes.
Le CEGEP de l’Outaouais and CEGEP Heritage College also closed Monday and will reopen Tuesday. They haven’t made an announcement yet about Wednesday.
In the case of the CEGEPs, the faculty unions are on strike along with support and professional staff.
in locations across Quebec, the Common Front (a group of public sector unions acting together) says it plans a series of education strikes through Wednesday.
All hospitals in the region remained open, though some services were slow, and some “non-essential” appointments could be rescheduled.
If people are sick or injured Monday, “we will take care of you,” said spokeswoman Geneviève Côté at the Hôpital de Gatineau. “If you are in a car accident there will be an ambulance. They aren’t on strike.”
Hospitals will not be affected by the Wednesday strikes, she said. The next dates for strike action in the health care network are expected to be Nov. 9 and 10.
Service at Gatineau schools and hospitals is expected to return to normal Tuesday, but the schools will be closed again on Wednesday.
Three hospital unions are off the job, but not the union that represents almost all nurses, the 66,000-member Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec, and not doctors. Lab staff and technicians are mostly working, Côté said.
Those off work included nursing assistants, psychologists, social workers, a small proportion of nurses who don’t belong to the main nurses’ union and some office staff, she said.
That means some services such as phoning to make an appointment may be slowed down, and patients will have to leave voice mail and wait for a call back from a manager.
“We’re talking about a slowdown in some areas,” but anything urgent will still be open and working during the strike.
Quebec’s unions are protesting to back contract demands. They are asking for a wage increase of 13.5 per cent over three years and the government is offering three per cent.
“The government wants to carry out unprecedented attacks on the working conditions of its employees, which not only undermine their ability to deliver quality services, but might cause dramatic loss of expertise in our public networks. And the entire population of Quebec would suffer the consequences,” Jacques Létourneau said in a statement. He’s president of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN).
On Tuesday the rotating strikes shift to eastern Quebec.
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