More than 420,000 public sector workers began a seven-day strike on Friday, the latest push to get the Quebec government to pay them more and improve their working conditions.
Unless there is a deal by later this month, union leaders said Friday they may resort to a general unlimited strike, which would keep public sector workers off the job indefinitely.
The workers are members of unions affiliated with the common front, or Front commun in French, a coalition of unions angling for a new collective agreement with the government.
The common front workers, who work across the public sector, including in health care and education, joined teachers from
