“Now is not the time to give in to the government,” said one worker on social media. “Just because an agreement has been reached doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good for workers.”
In the present labour dispute in the public and semi-public sectors, the issue of essential services has unquestionably resurfaced in the news. There was
If rank-and-file workers do not organize to defeat this betrayal, public sector workers will suffer a further deterioration in their wages and working conditions, and the right-wing populist Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government will accelerate its privatization plans.
The Common Front of unions representing around 420,000 public sector workers in Quebec has reached a proposed agreement in principle with the government.