After days of strikes and months of negotiations, the labour dispute between public daycare workers and the Quebec government appears to be nearly resolved.
After two days of “intensive negotiations,” the FSSS–CSN, a branch of the Confédération des syndicats nationaux which represents 11,000 daycare employees, announced it had reached an agreement in principle at around 1 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
A few hours later, the Syndicat québécois des employées et employés de service (SQEES) associated with the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) said its negotiators had also come to an agreement in principle with Quebec’s Treasury Board and family minister.
“We’ve worked really hard to get here,” said
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