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The collective agreements of more than half a million workers in Quebec’s health, education and broader public sector expired on March 31, 2020. Since then, the right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government has stepped up its efforts to impose new contracts that maintain the low wages and precarious conditions of recent decades, while intensifying the dismantling of public services.
The government’s hard line against public sector workers is combined with an aggressive back-to-school and back-to-work drive in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Putting profits before lives, this campaign has allowed the coronavirus to circulate freely and infect tens of thousands of health and education workers, who have been left unprotected while enduring punishing workloads.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
Chilean union federation issues strike call over pay demands
Chile’s Workers Unitary Central (CUT) labor federation called for a nationwide strike for April 30, the day before International Workers Day, to press for a wage rise and other demands. The call followed an April 15 CUT National Extended Council meeting of some 200 union officials.
The demands that will be put forward in the strike include a 500,000 peso (US$711) emergency rent payment, a freeze on food prices and a minimum monthly wage of 500,000 pesos. Most activities from nonattendance at telework sites to hanging of flags for victims of COVID-19,