The Quebec Federation of Labor (FTQ) intends to oppose the tax cuts desired by the Legault government and to demand a significant increase in Quebec’s minimum wage.
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“Who finances public services when there is no more money in the coffers? (…) It is not one-time gift certificates that will lift the world out of poverty,” argued FTQ President Daniel Boyer this morning.
During a press conference at their headquarters on Boulevard Crémazie in Montreal, the heads of the union organization reminded the government that the population “should be able to live decently and with dignity without wondering every day whether they will have enough food on the table or not [sans] having to choose between his medicine or his food.
On the subject of the minimum wage, the union reiterated its intention to demand a significant increase. The latter is currently fixed at $14.25 per hour. The union says it needs to raise it to $18 an hour this winter.
“It is scandalous to hear that certain multimillionaire business leaders are resisting an increase, those who abound, those who earned 243 times the average wage for workers in 2021,” said President Boyer along with Denis Bolduc, secretary general of the FTQ.
More details to come.