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Schools and daycares in the Outaouais were to be closed Monday and Tuesday as unionized staff joined the rotating strikes being staged by Quebec public sector workers.
Service at hospitals and health-care centres in the Outaouais was also be slowed down as support workers stage brief walkouts, part of a wave of rotating strikes across the province by public-sector workers to pressure the government in contract talks.
It’s been a tough few weeks for parents in the Outaouais who are scrambling to find child care as schools have been hit with both rotating strikes and sporadic closures at several schools because of bomb threats.
The strikes have closed schools Monday and Tuesday in the four French-language school boards — the Commission Scolaire des Draveurs, au Coeur-des-Vallées, des Portages-de-l’Outaouais, and des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais — the English-language Western Québec School Board, and the three campuses of the Cégep de l’Outaouais. Schools were expected to reopen Wednesday.
At Gatineau schools under La Commission Scolaire des Draveurs, support and professional staff walked out, and officials closed the schools because they assumed teachers would not cross the picket lines, said a statement by the board.
At the Western Québec School Board, which has 25 schools and five adult education and vocational training centres, teachers and other staff both walked out. “In order to provide safety and security to our student population in all circumstances, we have cancelled classes and daycare services in all of our schools and centres,” the board said in a statement. The board runs 14 day-care centres in its elementary schools.
Heritage College, the English-language cégep, cancelled its daytime classes on Monday. However, evening classes after 6 p.m. were to be held as usual, said the board in a statement. The College said it would announce by 7:30 a.m. Tuesday whether it would open that day, and advised students to check its website for more information about the Gatineau and Campbell’s Bay campuses.
Support staff at hospitals and health-care centres in the Outaouais have also joined the two-day strike, but nothing was closed. Because it’s considered essential, service at health centres must be maintained at 90 per cent, said spokesperson Geneviève Côté. So support staff are taking turns walking out for 45 minutes each on Monday and Tuesday.
“Things are going to be a little bit slower,” said Côté. “But we are making sure that everything that needs to be done is getting done.” The strikes affect Hôpital de Gatineau and Hôpital de Hull and the hospitals in Wakefield, Maniwaki and Shawville.
The Common Front, an umbrella group representing 400,000 public sector workers across Quebec, says it may also call a general strike, listing Dec. 1, 2 and 3 as possible dates.
On Friday, Quebec public sector unions rejected a new contract offer from the government that offered them a 0-1-1-1-0 per cent package: no salary increase the first year of the collective agreement, followed by a one per cent annual hike for three years, and then a salary freeze the last year. In its previous offer, the government proposed 0-0-1-1-1 per cent wage hikes over five years.
The new offer also changed a provision that would raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, proposing to do it more gradually. Starting Jan. 1, 2017, the retirement age would climb to 61, and two years later, to 62.
Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) president Daniel Boyer called the new offer “very unsatisfactory” and promised more strike action.
Here is a summary of the Quebec government offers, and what the public sector unions are seeking:
With files from the Montreal Gazette
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Service at hospitals and health-care centres in the Outaouais was also be slowed down as support workers stage brief walkouts, part of a wave of rotating strikes across the province by public-sector workers to pressure the government in contract talks.
It’s been a tough few weeks for parents in the Outaouais who are scrambling to find child care as schools have been hit with both rotating strikes and sporadic closures at several schools because of bomb threats.
The strikes have closed schools Monday and Tuesday in the four French-language school boards — the Commission Scolaire des Draveurs, au Coeur-des-Vallées, des Portages-de-l’Outaouais, and des Hauts-Bois-de-l’Outaouais — the English-language Western Québec School Board, and the three campuses of the Cégep de l’Outaouais. Schools were expected to reopen Wednesday.
At Gatineau schools under La Commission Scolaire des Draveurs, support and professional staff walked out, and officials closed the schools because they assumed teachers would not cross the picket lines, said a statement by the board.
At the Western Québec School Board, which has 25 schools and five adult education and vocational training centres, teachers and other staff both walked out. “In order to provide safety and security to our student population in all circumstances, we have cancelled classes and daycare services in all of our schools and centres,” the board said in a statement. The board runs 14 day-care centres in its elementary schools.
Heritage College, the English-language cégep, cancelled its daytime classes on Monday. However, evening classes after 6 p.m. were to be held as usual, said the board in a statement. The College said it would announce by 7:30 a.m. Tuesday whether it would open that day, and advised students to check its website for more information about the Gatineau and Campbell’s Bay campuses.
Support staff at hospitals and health-care centres in the Outaouais have also joined the two-day strike, but nothing was closed. Because it’s considered essential, service at health centres must be maintained at 90 per cent, said spokesperson Geneviève Côté. So support staff are taking turns walking out for 45 minutes each on Monday and Tuesday.
“Things are going to be a little bit slower,” said Côté. “But we are making sure that everything that needs to be done is getting done.” The strikes affect Hôpital de Gatineau and Hôpital de Hull and the hospitals in Wakefield, Maniwaki and Shawville.
The Common Front, an umbrella group representing 400,000 public sector workers across Quebec, says it may also call a general strike, listing Dec. 1, 2 and 3 as possible dates.
On Friday, Quebec public sector unions rejected a new contract offer from the government that offered them a 0-1-1-1-0 per cent package: no salary increase the first year of the collective agreement, followed by a one per cent annual hike for three years, and then a salary freeze the last year. In its previous offer, the government proposed 0-0-1-1-1 per cent wage hikes over five years.
The new offer also changed a provision that would raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, proposing to do it more gradually. Starting Jan. 1, 2017, the retirement age would climb to 61, and two years later, to 62.
Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) president Daniel Boyer called the new offer “very unsatisfactory” and promised more strike action.
Here is a summary of the Quebec government offers, and what the public sector unions are seeking:
With files from the Montreal Gazette
jmiller@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/JacquieAMiller
查看原文...
