Consultative meetings of employee members of the CSQ, APTS, CSN and FTQ unions will take place from mid-January to mid-February.
The four trade union organizations together represent around 420,000 employees in the education and health networks.
The settlement hypothesis, concluded on December 28, envisages salary increases of 17.4% over five years, with a purchasing power protection clause for the last three years of the employment contract. It also includes improvements to group insurance.
Before consulting their members, the four trade union organizations also had to consult their intermediate bodies, both on industry agreements – sector-specific working conditions – and on cross-sector agreements – for example on salaries. They are not all at the same level of progress in this regard. Certain committees met on Friday to study everything.
The affiliates of the Common Front had withdrawn for eleven days in November and December, one day, then three consecutive, then seven, before they came to this hypothesis of an agreement with the Quebec government.