Public sector strikes are ramping up again this week, and now 80,000 nurses and health professionals are joining the hundreds of thousands who are already on strike.
Quebec’s largest nurses’ union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), has launched a four-day strike as it continues negotiating a new contract with the province.
The nurses join the common front, or Front commun in French, and the Fédération autonome de l’enseignement teachers’ union on the picket lines. FIQ spokesperson Roberto Bomba thinks Quebecers undersand the need for the strike and will stand with the nurses.
“Our nurses have better things to do than be outside in the cold,” he
