Some employees at province-run hashish shops in Quebec, Canada are on an indefinite strike over a pay dispute, the Montreal Gazette studies. Hashish employees affiliated with the Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) have negotiated an settlement whereas employees with the Syndicat Canadien de la Fonction Publique (SCFP), which is affiliated with the Fédération des Travailleurs et Travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), the biggest commerce union in Quebec, stay on strike.
SCFP native president David Clément mentioned the beginning wage for Société Québécoise du Hashish (SQDC) is $17.12 an hour which he informed the Gazette is “too low,” including that whereas the union has proposed a settlement, it has acquired “radio silence” from the federal government.
“The SQDC introduced us with the settlement it had with the CSN, when it comes to wage. For our negotiating committee, our govt council, this isn’t an settlement or a proposal that will be fascinating as a result of it could maintain us, for the following 4 years, with salaries which might be (laughable) for a Crown company and for the job we do.” — Clément to the Gazette
The strike has led to walkouts at SQDC retailers and among the places will likely be sometimes closed all through the summer season, and at the very least one for an “indefinite time,” the Crown-run firm mentioned in a press release.
A spokesperson for SQDC administration declined to touch upon the strike or negotiations to the Gazette however mentioned the agency’s “goal is all the time to succeed in a negotiated settlement to the satisfaction of the events concerned.”
In an e mail to World Information, SQDC mentioned it does totally acknowledge “the correct of staff to train stress ways within the context of the negotiations in progress.”
“The company stays obtainable to proceed negotiations,” the corporate mentioned within the e mail, “and our want is to succeed in a negotiated settlement to the satisfaction of the events involved.”
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