{"id":202706,"date":"2023-12-14T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=202706"},"modified":"2023-12-14T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:34:55","slug":"public-sector-unions-call-for-new-collective-agreement-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/public-sector-unions-call-for-new-collective-agreement-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Public-sector unions call for new collective agreement before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Today marks the last day of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontcommun.org\/\">common front\u2019s<\/a> seven-day public sector strike in Quebec. Union leaders hope to reach an agreement with government officials before Christmas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In its most recent attempt to encourage the government to invest in the education and healthcare system, \u00c9ric Gingras, president of la Centrale des syndicats du Qu\u00e9bec (CSQ), said that the common front is putting \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d on officials to take action.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He expressed that the will of public sector workers is to get back to work and to serve the population, but the Quebec government is not on the same page in terms of what they are looking for in their new collective agreement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is the possibility for more strike days if no agreement is reached before Christmas, according Gingras, but what happens next is in the government\u2019s hands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><i>Listen to CIDI\u2019s coverage of the public-sector strikes below:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the last day of the common front\u2019s seven-day public sector strike in Quebec. Union leaders hope to reach an agreement with government officials before Christmas.\u00a0 In its most recent attempt to encourage the government to invest in the education and healthcare system, \u00c9ric Gingras, president of la Centrale des syndicats du Qu\u00e9bec (CSQ),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":197013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[221,223,225],"tags":[8175,438,19099,2398,11869,19901,33204],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202725,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202706\/revisions\/202725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202706"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=202706"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=202706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}