23-05-2025
Quebec government engineers resume strike
An engineer looks at an equation. (Pexels)
Quebec government engineers are back on an indefinite strike as of 8 a.m. on Friday.
The 2,100 engineers, members of the Association professionnelle des ingénieurs du gouvernement du Québec (APIGQ), work for the ministries of transport, municipal affairs, environment, cybersecurity and more.
Strike actions first affected evenings, nights and weekends before workers launched an indefinite strike on May 2.
It was suspended from May 13 to 23, when they returned to work.
Salaries are not at the center of the dispute, as the Quebec government has offered them an increase of 17.4 per cent over five years, the same amount granted to all government employees.
What is in question is the sectoral envelope, the amount set aside for things like insurance, offices and salary structure.
The office of Treasury Board President Sonia LeBel claims it offered the same sectoral envelope to the engineers as it did to other sectors, but the APIGQ argues that other unions got more.
-- This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on May 23, 2024.
