Author: The Equity
Published March 27, 2024

Union members to vote on deal mid-April

Sophie Kuijper Dickson, LJI Reporter

After 16 months of negotiations, Quebec’s largest nurses union has reached an agreement in principle with the province.

The Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec, known as the FIQ, reached the agreement late on Mar. 19, according to a FIQ news release.
Union delegates voted to approve the tentative contract agreement with the provincial government on Mar. 21, according to a separate release.
This tentative agreement came after several different mobilization actions, including eight days of strikes late last year.

“We believe we have negotiated an offer that reflects and respects the specificities of our members’ daily lives,” said Julie Bouchard, President of the FIQ, in the news release.
According to the FIQ, the negotiated agreement includes a salary increase of 17.4 per cent.
The tentative deal also includes a new framework for mandatory overtime, which is only to be used in emergencies, funds dedicated to relieving the surgery backlog across the province, a commitment by the government to gradually implement patient-worker ratios, as well as bonuses for the critical holiday and summer periods.

The next step will be presenting the details of the agreement to the union’s 80,000 or so members, who will then vote on the deal in an electronic referendum scheduled for April 10, 11 and 12.

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