When Chloé Cabral-Châtelier was doing her education internships without pay, she felt so squeezed she joined the 54,000 university and CEGEP students across Quebec who walked out for a week to protest against unpaid internships in November 2018.
Now she finds herself back on the picket line with the Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE), which represents 65,000 teachers across the province. Cabral-Châtelier says a lot of the demands are the same as when she was interning.
Many who graduated with Cabral-Châtelier left the profession entirely, and those who stayed are on strike once again.
“It’s frustrating that things didn’t change. We’re four years later but we’re
