Public sector workers have been striking for weeks now to pressure the Quebec government into negotiating new collective agreements.
The major union federations, the Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE), Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), and the common front, a coalition of unions representing more than 420,000 public sector workers in health-care and education, among other areas, are on strike for much of this week.
That means about 560,000 people, about six and a half per cent of Quebec’s population, are striking.
The strikes are the largest labour movement in years and they are affecting the delivery of public services. Children are out
