Workers at CSN-affiliated daycares in Montreal and Laval began a two-day strike Wednesday — they have been without a contract since March 2015.
Around 6,000 children are affected by the strike, which closed 61 of the province’s Centres de la Petite Enfance (CPE).
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A protest will be staged Wednesday morning outside the Pie-IX métro station at 9:30 a.m. and will later become a picket outside the office of the Association Patronale des CPE, the group that represents employers.
A stalemate in negotiations between that group and the workers’ union is what led the union to seek a strike mandate.
They are upset with the pace of negotiations toward a new contract and say the employer wants to impose cutbacks.
Workers at about 40 other daycares in the Greater Montreal Area have already reached an agreement or are about to reach one. They first went on strike Oct. 30, 2017.
– with files from The Canadian Press