Health Minister Christian Dube’s comments about nurses’ unions and their reservations about certain premiums were received as 2,000 per cent contempt, said Claire Montour, who was president of the CSQ-affiliated Fédération de la santé at the time.
Despite repeated claims that the deadline would not be pushed back, Quebec Health Minister Christian Dube announced Wednesday he is giving health-care workers 30 more days to get their two vaccine doses.
MONTREAL Employees of the Sainte-Dorothée long-term care home in Laval were often moved from one unit to another, even though they were potential vectors of COVID-19. Several witnesses testified to this on Wednesday during the coroner s public inquiry into the deaths of elderly or vulnerable people during the first wave of COVID-19. Claire Montour, president of the CSQ-affiliated Fédération de la santé du Québec, said her union often sounded the alarm on the matter to the Health Ministry. We can t work and give care two metres from the patient (.) it s clear that the staff is a vector of transmission, she said.
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The union representing 5,000 nurses, auxiliary nurses and respiratory therapists in Laval, the Gaspé, Quebec’s north shore and northern Quebec has rejected the provincial government’s latest offer to renew its collective agreement.
The Fédération de la Santé du Québec (FSQ), affiliated with the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), announced Sunday that it was rejecting the offer submitted Jan. 21 by the government because it “does not guarantee any real improvement in working conditions.”
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