{"id":10724,"date":"2023-12-19T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2023-12-19T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T19:06:51","slug":"quebec-strikes-common-front-groups-meet-to-take-stock-of-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/quebec-strikes-common-front-groups-meet-to-take-stock-of-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec strikes: Common Front groups meet to take stock of negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/quebec-strikes-common-front-groups-meet-to-take-stock-of-negotiations-1.6693735\">Read the original article on the CTV News Website<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>The CSN, CSQ, APTS and FTQ, which form the Common Front of public sector unions, have been meeting separately since 9 or 10 a.m. on Tuesday, to take stock of negotiations with Quebec and decide on if they want to continue with the strike mandate they already have.<\/h2>\n<p>So far, the Common Front has held one strike day, then three in a row, then seven. It had already warned that the latest seven-day sequence, from Dec. 8 to 14, would be the last before it would exercise unlimited strike action.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen, however, whether the unions, which together represent 420,000 workers in the education and health-care networks, will decide on the date the indefinite strike would begin.<\/p>\n<p>They have said it will all depend on the progress of negotiations to renew collective agreements, both at the intersectoral level &#8212; wages, pension plans, regional disparities &#8212; and at the sectoral level &#8212; organization of working time, workload, and class composition, for example.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the four union groups that are meeting Tuesday are discussing the progress, or lack of progress, in sectoral and intersectoral negotiations all day long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CSN, CSQ, APTS and FTQ, which form the Common Front of public sector unions, have been meeting separately since 9 or 10 a.m. on Tuesday, to take stock of negotiations with Quebec and decide on if they want to continue with the strike mandate they already have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[449,481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-negos","category-press-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10726,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions\/10726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appa.qc.ca\/emsb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}