By Staff The Canadian Press
Posted April 16, 2021
Posted April 16, 2021
View image in full screenTeachers demonstrate outside a school during a morning walk-out in Longueuil, Que. on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Teachers are striking to express dissatisfaction with negotiations with the Quebec government that have gone on for more than a year. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press
Around 73,000 Quebec teachers say they will walk off the job for several hours on April 27
The strike is scheduled to take place from 2:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. and will be the second strike day this month involving teachers who work for 58 school service centres and English-language school boards.
The teachers went on strike between midnight and 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Josee Scalabrini, president of the Federation des syndicats de l’enseignement, a federation of teachers’ unions, says that by giving a 10-day notice, she hopes school administrators can adapt and won’t try to stop the strike in court.
READ MORE: Quebec man arrested after teacher on picket line struck by car
Education managers applied to Quebec Superior Court and the province’s labour board to prevent last Wednesday’s strike.
The unions say their members want reduced workloads, more support for young teachers and more money.
They say teachers voted for a mandate to strike for the equivalent of five days.
Scalabrini said today the threat of strikes is working.
“It’s funny, since we announced the first strike, we’ve seen things accelerate at the (negotiation) table,” she said in an interview.
Around 73,000 Quebec teachers say they will walk off the job for several hours on April 27
The strike is scheduled to take place from 2:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. and will be the second strike day this month involving teachers who work for 58 school service centres and English-language school boards.
The teachers went on strike between midnight and 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
Josee Scalabrini, president of the Federation des syndicats de l’enseignement, a federation of teachers’ unions, says that by giving a 10-day notice, she hopes school administrators can adapt and won’t try to stop the strike in court.
READ MORE: Quebec man arrested after teacher on picket line struck by car
Education managers applied to Quebec Superior Court and the province’s labour board to prevent last Wednesday’s strike.
The unions say their members want reduced workloads, more support for young teachers and more money.
They say teachers voted for a mandate to strike for the equivalent of five days.
Scalabrini said today the threat of strikes is working.
“It’s funny, since we announced the first strike, we’ve seen things accelerate at the (negotiation) table,” she said in an interview.
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