After three weeks of indefinite strikes, the FAE announced on Wednesday evening that it had finally managed to reach an agreement with the government on a global solution proposal.
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This proposal will be presented on Thursday to the nine unions that make up the Autonomous Education Federation (FAE). They will then decide whether the proposal can be viewed as an agreement in principle. If necessary, it is presented to employees, who can vote to accept or reject it.
“We will leave it to our committee to decide whether this is an agreement in principle that meets the urgent needs of teachers and their students,” FAE President Mélanie Hubert commented briefly in a press release.
Details of the content of the proposed regulation were not disclosed.
The FAE, which represents around 66,500 teachers in 12 school service centers, felt pressure to reach an agreement after 22 days of indefinite general strikes, although the various Common Front unions had successively announced deals in recent days.
There are many points of contention between teachers' unions and the government, ranging from classroom organization to workload to salary issues.