Teachers and other public sector workers, represented by the Common Front, begin their second day of strike on Wednesday.
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One of the main problems they claim “is the composition of the class,” affirms Ismaël Seck, special education teacher in Montreal and represented by the FAE, who will go on an indefinite general strike from November 23rd.
“The class of 20 years ago and the class of today are no longer the same at all. “It used to be a few students who had difficulties, but now, in a regular class, it’s sometimes more than half of the students,” he explains.
“The chicken or the egg”
Faced with Sonia LeBel’s arguments that the lack of labor makes it impossible to achieve better conditions, Ismaël Seck claims that it is “a bit of a game of chicken or egg”.
In fact, he claims, on the contrary, that better working conditions would help retain existing school staff.
Watch the full interview in the video above.