Since the fall, bus drivers have been on strike, leaving some 15,000 students without a ride to and from school. Frustration is growing among parents over the lack of action.
For its first real full session, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) government will be able to test the effects of its supermajority in the national assembly on the smooth running of parliamentary business and the results it has promised the population. During this session, which opens on Tuesday and ends on June 9, there will be a lot of talk about improving the health and education networks, the labour shortage and inflation.
A major Quebec union group is concerned about violence in schools and child labour and highlighted both issues at a news conference at the beginning of the year. The Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), which has a majority of members working in the education sector, is concerned that the phenomenon of violence in schools is well and truly present and that acts of violence even occur in preschools and are unfortunately commonplace.
Construction workers, and workers from other sectors, will demonstrate in front of the health workers health and safety board (CNESST) offices in Montreal on Tuesday to ensure that there is no postponement of the future occupational health and safety provisions that are to come into effect on Jan. 1.
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