Workers are demanding the equivalent of $16.75 per hour.

After months of failed talks, daycare workers in Montreal and Laval have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate.

The  Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN),the labour federation which represents the workers, said that 94 per cent of its 11,000 members in 400 daycares across the province, voted in favour of the strike action on Thursday.