“It’s going to be complicated. It’s not fun. This is not good news. Despite all the inconveniences that will come with the lack of public transport during the Quebec Summer Festival, Mayor Bruno Marchand warns that he does not intend to bend before union requests.
The maintenance employees of the capital’s transport network (RTC) will trigger a ten -day strike, which will maintain all the buses in the garage from Friday morning.
In interview with It’s even better in the afternoonBruno Marchand categorically refused the requests for salary increases of 30 % over 5 years. It’s no.
According to him, it is the ability to pay from Quebec City.
Extract: Mayor Bruno Marchand in an interview on the show is even better in the afternoon, Thursday, July 3, about the trigger of a strike at the RTC.
Photo : Radio-Canada
Negotiating with thousands of employees, it affects the tax account [des résidents]. It’s deliberate, we take people from Quebec hostage for a union cause
argues the mayor to defend his position.
Bruno Marchand also believes that in recent decades, municipal politicians have too often folded the back to avoid the political consequences of particularly disturbing strikes.
For 40 years, often it happened in the municipal world. […] We have politicians who have found short -term solutions. We end up with collective conventions which have stacked each other and for which we sometimes say to ourselves: “It has no pace”.
The mayor of Quebec also recalls that his administration has passed through a strike of more than three months of municipal library employees and that, until now, the city has managed to sign new collective agreements with the majority of its unionized employees.
No pay for drivers
Bruno Marchand also specifies that bus drivers will not be paid during the strike.
Their collective agreement provides that there is no salary if the service is not offered. After seven days, the RTC could make temporary launching.
