Its attitude at the bargaining tables, its offer of 9% over 5 years (unchanged since the beginning), its equivocal media operations -
its contempt, in short - are forcing us to go on strike.
The last straw was a hateful statement made last week by premier Legault: "Unions always think that they have to go on strike to gain
as much as possible. So we'll wait for the strike". What is the government saying? That it's been refusing to budge at the bargaining tables for over a year, persisting with its arrogance, its disconnected offers, and its attacks on our working conditions, all this because it's been waiting for us to go on strike?
On November 6, over 500 walkouts will be organized throughout Québec. In health and social services, schools, and higher education, workers will join picket lines, together as one, to force the government to move.
And if our message still isn't heard, a second strike action sequence may be organized. That would be the largest strike movement in the public sector over the past 50 years.