Whereas awaiting a choice from the Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) on which important companies should be maintained, two strikes are set to start in a single day from Wednesday to Thursday at Hydro-Québec.
Collectively, these two native chapters of the Canadian Union of Public Workers (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, symbolize practically 9,000 workers.
In each instances, the motion will contain a refusal to work time beyond regulation.
Hydro-Québec and the 2 unions—particularly the expert trades union and the technologists’ union—have already agreed on the important companies to be maintained in the course of the strike.
Nonetheless, the TAT has but to find out, by that point, whether or not the proposed checklist of companies is ample to keep away from endangering public well being or security.
Although this can be a refusal to work time beyond regulation, reasonably than a conventional strike, the president of the expert trades union, Frédéric Savard, says he’s sure that this refusal may have repercussions for Hydro-Québec. “It is going to actually have an effect on the corporate’s motion plan,” he said in an interview on Monday.
Hydro-Québec administration has already indicated that “throughout outages or emergencies, workers will likely be required to keep up important companies by working time beyond regulation.”
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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