Well being Minister Sonia Bélanger says she doesn’t need to intervene in negotiations between ambulance firms and unions representing paramedics, a day after a tribunal determination that highlighted the prolonged period of strikes every time collective agreements expire.
Earlier this week, ambulance firms failed of their try to have paramedics’ supervision of coaching placements acknowledged as a vital service in the course of the present strikes. The Tribunal administratif du travail rejected the employers’ request.
In its determination, the tribunal pointed to what it described because the “period of the strikes that happen every time a collective settlement expires.” It added that these “ineffective and subsequently interminable strikes are more likely to weigh on labour relations inside ambulance firms and don’t favour the attraction or retention of paramedics.”
Requested in regards to the difficulty Friday throughout a information convention on one other subject in Beloeil, Bélanger acknowledged the negotiations have been lengthy, however declined to intervene.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
