Quebec’s Interprofessional Health Federation (FIQ), which has yet to agree with the government to sign the agreement in principle, condemned the CAQ’s “passivity” on Monday, but said the union will try to “manage” public opinion. To former health minister and political analyst Gaétan Barrette.
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“FIQ is stubborn”, said Mr. Barrett raises, “There was an agreement in principle that was dropped, and at the same time, nurses with the same practice profile in two other unions, […] He accepted the same conditions.
“It sounds like extremism,” he added. “And who pays the costs? These are the citizens.”
The former health minister explains that if the CAQ’s plan to serve the North Shore with flying teams of health workers is currently facing problems, it is because the agreement with the FIQ has not been signed.
“The FIQ knows this, and it’s important to them that this situation is getting worse,” he continues. “Politically, it’s a mechanism for pressure.”
He notes that to be part of these flying teams, nurses must be represented by a union, which was previously agreed with the government and Mr. According to Barrett the FIQ, which represents 95% of nurses, is not. Having yet to sign its contract in principle with CAQ, the number of staff available to provide their service on the North Coast is very limited.
“By not signing, it’s indirectly creating pressure against the government, that’s the union’s stubbornness. In practice, there are nurses in Quebec who signed on wanting the government to make certain arrangements and the same arrangements, FIQ rejects them and doesn’t participate in the flying group. It’s a perfect storm, but now that there’s union manipulation People need to know,” he criticizes.
For his part, political analyst Luc Lavoie believes that using this kind of pressure to destabilize the government is “unacceptable.”
“We lived in a kind of ‘no man’s land’ last fall where we never knew where things would end up,” he recalled. “You have to be aware that in the past there was a possibility that the government would introduce a special law and step in and that was resolved.”
Mr. Lavoie notes.
“We’re in a gray zone,” he continues. “Government, if I am, I will test the law. We are sending a special law and we will see what happens next.
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