Work In Dignity

You Need to Ask This Vital Question When Your Boss Calls You to a Meeting.

Photo: Anete Lusina If your employer invites you to attend a meeting, you MUST ask them whether or not the…

3 years ago

Unions and Quebec Agree Low Wage Healthcare Workers Deserve More Money – But Just Not Right Now

(Photo: Natalia Ovchinnikova / Pexels) Opinion The Quebec government agrees with labour organizations that most of you, the provinces' lower-wage…

3 years ago

ISQ Report Discovers Increasing Wage Gap Between Québec Public Service Workers and The Private Sector

Between 2019 and 2020, ISQ reported the gap in overall compensation rose over three percent from 6.1% to 9.2%, to…

3 years ago

Pay Equity Settlement For 65,000 Workers Is Entirely Independent of Contract Negotiations

Releasing news of a pay equity settlement as union workers are to vote on a new tentative contract may unintentionally…

3 years ago

Quebec Latest Contract Offer Continues to Impoverish Healthcare Workers – Is Miles Away From Original Salary Demands

Despite the 15 percent salary increase for patient attendants, Quebec's latest salary offer will continue to impoverish healthcare workers. (Photo:…

3 years ago

Contract Negotiations: Former Union Official Discusses Four Aspects Local Union Reps and Workers Should Be Aware

Despite close to 500,000 public striking workers backed by strong public support, Central union leaders accepted a 2015 tentative five…

3 years ago

Quebec Teachers Celebrate International Workers’ Day With New Contract – Salaries to Approach Canadian Average

The new agreement will see teachers in primary, secondary and professional training schools pay brackets increase between $7,000 and $8,531.…

4 years ago

Toxic Bosses Should Be the Next to Face #MeToo-Type Reprisals

Toxic workplaces and abusive bosses can make our lives miserable and seriously erode our physical and mental well-being.(Photo: Andrea Piacquadio…

4 years ago

What Healthcare Workers Need to Know Regarding MUHC Summer Vacation Rights and Obligations

Summer vacation preferences must be sent before March 15 for APTS, MUHCEU-CSN, and SPSICR-CUSM FIQ staff. (Credit: Artem Beliaikin /…

4 years ago

After 5 Day General Strike Quebec Union Settles for One-third of the Original Raise Demand

The tentative agreement brings the 2022 - 2023 hourly rate to $13.93, well short of the $16.75 the workers were…

4 years ago

Quebec Settles With Home Daycare Workers Following a One-Week Unlimited General Strike

The province reached a tentative deal with Quebec home daycare workers union following a one-week unlimited general strike. Workers were…

4 years ago

Unions’ big lie to Quebec health care workers battling the pandemic: “The government will protect you”

"The palpable anger of health care workers is bound up with growing opposition among all sections of the working class,...…

4 years ago

FSSS-CSN President Confirms Over 13,000 Union Members Have Already Caught COVID-19

WHO admits coronavirus travels in microscopic respiratory airborne particles that pose a risk of exposure at distances beyond 1 to…

4 years ago

French Healthcare Workers Mobilization Achieves Historical Wage Increases – Nearly $300 Per Month for Non-Medical Staff

After major demonstrations across France, non-medical health care workers will receive a monthly raise of nearly 300 dollars. A medical…

4 years ago

If Unions Seek the Guilty for the State of Quebec’s Public Healthcare, They Need Only Look Into a Mirror

The historic Quebec strike of 2015 achieved only modest wage gains that favored the impoverishment of healthcare workers, a concession…

4 years ago

Quebec’s Agreement in Principle Proposal Falls Well Short of the Union’s Mandate

The proposed agreement in principle falls well short of the Unions mandate, which would see healthcare workers receive an hourly…

4 years ago

New Smartphone App Allows Healthcare Workers to Self-Monitor Their Mental Health

"To give Front-line workers the power to act on their mental health," Dr. Bergeron. Photo: fauxels / Pexels Montreal researchers…

4 years ago

All Healthcare Workers are Essential – Quebec Needs to do Right by Justly, Adjusting the Unjust Bonuses

As COVID-19 doesn't discriminate based on an employee's education, neither should the bonuses. Image: Manuel's Blog Opinion: Health and social…

4 years ago

Up to $3000 a Month in Bonuses for Some Healthcare Workers While Excluding Others

"Full-time healthcare workers who accumulate the two premiums will receive up to $3,000 more per month," Treasury Board president Dubé.…

4 years ago

Counter to CNESST Directive – MUHC is Sharing Employees Personable Symptoms with Co-workers

"Answers to these questions are confidential and employers must take the necessary steps to ensure their confidentiality," CNESST. Image: Matthew Henry…

5 years ago

UPDATE: MUHC Will Again Allow Staff to Collect Food Donations and Meal Orders

The decision is also excellent news to the people and restaurants who deliver donate meals to the establishments healthcare personnel.…

5 years ago

Quebec: New Directives for Immunocompromised Staff, Quarantine, Awaiting Test Results and After the Results

No amount can be recovered by the employer from employees, following the result of a test. (Photo: Martin Lopez from…

5 years ago

Quebec’s New Decree Outlines Who Receives Which Bonus, Paid Meals and Daycare Expenses

Employees who work in one or other of the environments on the listed will receive a bonus of 8% applicable…

5 years ago

Quebec’s Bonus Offer Amounts to a ‘Slap in the Face’ for Majority of Healthcare workers

Bonuses for Quebec healthcare workers need to be based on risk and not education. (Photo by Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels)…

5 years ago

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