On February 7, the Autonomous Education Federation (FAE) will announce whether or not its 66,500 members agree to the agreement in principle proposed to them following negotiations with the Quebec government over their new employment contract.
The nine unions affiliated to the FAE will present the agreement offer to their respective members at general meetings taking place in the coming days and weeks.
The proposed agreement in principle at the central table came after 22 days of strikes and many weeks of intensive work at the negotiating tables.
Quebec says the proposal targets 40% of teachers in the school network.
In order for the agreement to be adopted, the double majority rule must be respected. According to this principle, a majority of unions and a majority of the FAE's 66,500 members must vote for adoption.
The results of the vote by members of the various affiliated unions will be announced simultaneously at the end of the process.
Gatherings for the Common Front
As for the unions of the Common Front, which brings together the CSN, the CSQ, the APTS and the FTQ, general meetings will be called from January 15th to February 19th to discuss the agreement in principle. For the agreement to become a collective bargaining agreement, more than 50% of the 420,000 employees in the education and health networks must agree.
According to the agreement in principle negotiated with Quebec, a salary increase of 17.4% over five years was negotiated for all workers in all sectors.
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The Joint Front held strike days for almost two months. (archive photo)
Photo: Radio-Canada / Annie-Claude Luneau
There is a 6% increase for the first year of the agreement, retroactive to April 1, 2023 if the agreement is accepted. According to union leaders, this annual increase is the largest in the life of a collective agreement since 1979.
With information from Mathieu Gohier