Hundreds of thousands of government employees went on strike in the Canadian province of Quebec

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, hundreds of thousands of public sector employees, including school teachers, hospital employees and social service workers in Canada’s Quebec province, have launched a historic strike with the aim of demanding the improvement of their employment and legal conditions.

According to “Agence France-Presse”, according to the plans of the trade unions, this strike with the participation of nearly 600,000 government employees in this French-speaking province of Canada began on Tuesday and lasted until Friday.

Some strike organizers have called for a longer nationwide strike after negotiations with the Quebec government over their demands failed.

In one of their rallies, the strikers appeared in front of a school in the city of “Montreal” and held the flags of their unions and chanted slogans protesting against high inflation and the bad economic situation.

Valerie Fontaine, president of the Federation of Higher Education Support Employees, said: “We feel that the Quebec government does not care about the public service sector and its choices.” It is about the salaries of government employees. “We’re seeing a pay gap in the public sector that’s widening.”

Eric Lauro, an elementary school teacher, said: “We want more services for our students. We want the classrooms to be more balanced and to be formed with fewer students in each class.” In a period of five years, together with giving a bonus of 1000 Canadian dollars to each employee, they rejected it.

The Quebec government announced that this proposal was adopted in line with inflation forecasts. But trade unions called this proposal “insulting” and stressed that it is not even close to the level of cost of living increase and will actually end up making government employees poorer.

This is the second The strike of these employees is considered to be in November.

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