Montreal – Presidents of the FTQ and the CSQ fear that Quebec unions will soon live the same treatment as Air Canada on -board agents, with the law that the Minister of Labor has just adopted, Jean Boulet.
The Quebec law, adopted last May, limits the effects of a strike or a lockout. Among other things, it gives the Minister of Labor the power to impose arbitration on the parties, when he judges that a strike or a lockout may cause serious or irreparable damage to the population.
Magali Picard, president of the FTQ – the power station to which the Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP) is affiliated, which represents Air Canada’s on -board agents – and Éric Gingras, president of the CSQ, draw a parallel with what could soon happen to Quebec unions, with the taxation of an arbitration and the forced end of a strike.
Other employers could “let the negotiations rot, then go” cry on the shoulder of governments “by asking them to intervene, said Ms. Picard.
“I predict you that this is also what will happen in Quebec, following the adoption by the CAQ and the government of François Legault of Bill 89 which limits the right to strike,” she added.
During his traditional start -up press conference on Monday in Montreal, the president of the CSQ, Éric Gingras on Monday in Montreal on Monday, offered his support to Air Canada on -board agents “who live exactly, with the imposition of article 107 (of the Canadian Labor Code), which the Unions of Quebec could live” with the new Quebec law: “an employer who is hanging out, who crosses his feet, may the government intervene ”.
