After weeks of negotiations, Quebec’s common front of public sector unions, known as the Front commun in French, is one step closer to ending its strike. It reached an agreement in principle with the provincial government on both pay and working conditions.
At a news conference on Sunday, the common front, which represents about 420,000 public sector heath-care and education workers, announced that it had reached the agreement at the end of December.
It said the next step is for its members to sign off on the agreement.
On salaries, the common front leaders have agreed to a 17.4 per cent increase over five years, with
