News
01/10/2025
24/09/2025
Government nearly a year late in paying out premiums | The APTS demonstrates to mark this sad anniversary
24/09/2025
Creation of the job title of psychotherapist | An APTS victory for access to mental health services
11/09/2025
Occupational health and safety | The APTS calls on Minister Boulet to drop a discriminatory prevention regime
10/09/2025
The APTS reaches out to the new cabinet while public services face major challenges
03/09/2025
Youth protection - the APTS demands concrete action following the release of the coroner’s report on the tragedy in Granby
17/07/2025
Abuse and inadequate care and living conditions | The APTS sounds the alarm at Le Dufresne residence in Laval
19/06/2025
Director of Youth Protection 2025 evaluation report | the situation remains critical despite hopes for improvement
30/05/2025
Bill 101 on labour relations | Two-tier prevention: the APTS denounces a discriminatory bill
26/05/2025
Ruling on the evaluation of the clinical sexologist job title
21/05/2025
Bill 100 | APTS recommendations focus on a fair and effective bargaining process for the future of public services
29/04/2025
The APTS reacts to the Canadian federal election results
25/04/2025
April 28 | International Workers’ Memorial Day
24/04/2025
Bill 101 | One step forward for labour relations, three steps back for health and safety
23/04/2025
Bill 100 | The APTS is open to modernizing the negotiating process, but says caution is required
22/04/2025
Bill 98 The APTS denounces an attempt to silence civil society
14/04/2025
National Medical Laboratory Week | Putting the spotlight on workers who are essential to our health
10/04/2025
Public float team agreement extended to March 2026 | A makeshift solution whose limitations are now obvious, says the APTS
25/03/2025
2025-2026 Québec Budget | The APTS presents its expectations for health and social services
25/03/2025
2025-2026 Budget | The government is failing to protect both health and social services
20/03/2025
The right to strike under threat: the APTS demands the withdrawal of Bill 89
17/03/2025
Nearly 6,000 Quebecers call for a strong health care system | What if we dared to do it?
12/03/2025
Health and social services | Recognition of seniority during a strike: the APTS wins for the fourth consecutive time
19/02/2025
Bill 89 | An essential right under threat: the APTS denounces a blow to workers’ rights
13/02/2025
Health and social services budget | The APTS tells the government to “dare to do it”
11/02/2025
People before statistics | the APTS presents its recommendations for the provincial policy on home care
11/02/2025
Bill 83 | The APTS calls for more ambitious solutions to reinforce the public system
05/02/2025
Unpaid premiums in health and social services | The APTS brings action against Santé Québec
30/01/2025
The government must stop demanding budget cuts and protect the funding of the public system
23/01/2025
Where are our premiums? The government and Santé Québec need to quit passing the buck
04/12/2024
Union representation in health and social services | The APTS welcomes Minister LeBel’s announcement, but remains vigilant
02/12/2024
APTS demonstration in downtown Montréal | Santé Québec is no Christmas present
18/11/2024
Budget cuts announced | The APTS denounces the return of austerity in health and social services
31/10/2024
Payment of premiums is delayed Government must keep its promises to union members and Quebecers
30/10/2024
Residences with continuous assistance | Silent demonstrations in Montérégie to denounce health and safety risks
21/10/2024
Workload: a new approach and new tools
12/10/2024
Occupational Health and Safety Week October 20 to 26 | Play it safe!
10/10/2024
INSPQ negotiations | APTS members vote unanimously to strike
09/10/2024
Groupe Medway’s health care facility in Rivière-du-Loup | The APTS says NO to the privatization of health and social services in Québec’s regions
01/10/2024
The APTS obtains additional premiums for youth protection
19/09/2024
The impact of the new collective agreement on income replacement indemnities
19/09/2024
Expanding the scope of professional practice - The APTS presents its recommendations for Bill 67
06/09/2024
Victory for APTS members in the Outaouais: $22,000 premium extended to medical imaging technologists throughout the region
12/07/2024
APTS and Québec government sign agreement to widen access to incentive premium for Outaouais medical imaging technologists
29/06/2024
The APTS welcomes the reelection of Éric Gingras as CSQ president
18/06/2024
2024 evaluation of youth protection in Québec: a system hanging by a thread
17/06/2024
Health ministry consultations about medical labs | APTS denounces lack of substantive proposals after more than a year of reflection
12/06/2024
Medical imaging at risk for service breaks in the Outaouais region | The APTS obtains an expansion of premiums aiming for parity with Ontario
07/06/2024
Public sector contract talks | The APTS has signed its collective agreement for 2023-2028
04/06/2024
The APTS responds to the tabling of Bill 67
21/05/2024
Joint statement on the future of medical labs: over twenty partners declare their support for public, high-quality, accessible, and locally available services
06/05/2024
Moving forward for the future of our labs | APTS focus day brings many different partners together
30/04/2024
Medical imaging at risk for service breaks in the Outaouais region | APTS and Québec government reach agreement aiming for parity with Ontario
29/04/2024
DUBÉ REFORM | THE APTS SAYS NEW SANTÉ QUÉBEC BOSS FACES FOUR MAJOR CHALLENGES
26/04/2024
Psychological harassment and sexual violence in the workplace Anticipated, necessary amendments
17/04/2024
Moving forward for the future of our labs | May 6, 2024: The APTS will bring together actors from every horizon for a focus day
12/04/2024
April 28 | Day of mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace
28/03/2024
Whistleblower protection | It’s time to abolish the code of silence in the health and social services system
12/03/2024
2024-2025 Québec budget | The Legault government is setting the stage for a return to austerity, the APTS warns
21/02/2024
The APTS offers its full cooperation with the investigation carried out by Québec’s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission
14/02/2024
APTS wins its case on accumulating seniority during a strike
08/02/2024
Fighting harassment and sexual violence in the workplace (Bill 42) | commendable measures and an unfortunate lack of proactivity
01/02/2024
A major victory for whistleblowers
24/01/2024
Home support services Report on aging well at home | it’s time for the government to make its intentions known
24/12/2023
Public-sector contract talks | The APTS has reached a hypothetical tentative agreement at the sectoral table
08/12/2023
Government will invoke closure to ensure hurried adoption of Dubé reform | Quebecers’ health and social safety net in jeopardy
15/11/2023
Health and social services contract talks | Organization of work: government is talking out of both sides of its mouth
09/11/2023
2023 Convention: Robert Comeau reelected as APTS president
29/10/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Government makes an insulting offer – again
20/10/2023
A lighter administrative burden for workers providing home care | Measures look promising if the right conditions are in place
17/10/2023
Historic strike mandate for the Front commun: 95% of members vote yes
16/10/2023
OHS week | Don’t jeopardize your health – make a report!
02/10/2023
Extension of the psychiatry premium: the APTS scores a first victory before the arbitrator
14/06/2023
Coroner’s report on suicide in Québec | Québec’s public system must provide access to mental health services
13/06/2023
Evaluation of youth protection in Québec: future looks grim for an ailing system
08/06/2023
Case won by a biomedical engineer of Romanian origin
01/06/2023
Bad-faith bargaining and interference in union activities: APTS takes the government to court
19/05/2023
The APTS welcomes the reelection of Caroline Senneville as CSN president
13/05/2023
Public-sector contract talks | The Front commun is incensed and ratchets up the pressure
09/05/2023
Bill 15 | The APTS tells the government to change course
17/04/2023
2010 pay equity audit: CNESST sends notices of decisions
12/04/2023
Health and social service contract talks | Time to step up the pace
03/04/2023
Rising-scale COVID premium: a landmark decision
31/03/2023
Home-support services | APTS reacts to report on aging well at home
29/03/2023
New health agency Santé Québec | Health reform gets off on the wrong foot
21/03/2023
2023-2024 budget | APTS condemns vote-seeking tax cuts carried out at the expense of public services
14/03/2023
Bill on independent labour | The APTS criticizes Bill 10 for its glaring omissions
03/03/2023
Increasing your work hours to 37.5 h/week - it's up to you
24/02/2023
OPTILAB | APTS calls for a moratorium on construction of the Montérégie hub lab
22/02/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Vague and disconnected offers to improve mental health services
16/02/2023
A two-tier lab system | The APTS calls for decentralization
16/02/2023
Front commun sets the record straight after government’s misleading statements
15/02/2023
A bill on independent workers in the health and social services sector | More is needed to stop the hemorrhaging
31/01/2023
For the new parliamentary session | APTS presents its checklist for health and social services
25/01/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Government offers rejected by the Front commun
19/01/2023
The APTS welcomes Magali Picard as newly elected president of the FTQ
21/12/2022
Government contract offers in the health and social service sector | Unions don’t want a rerun of the same bad movie
08/12/2022
Day of action for youth centres | Youth workers cry out for support: “Are you ever going to help me?”
03/11/2022
Ministry of Health and Social Services blamed for being rigid and inflexible
02/11/2022
The APTS unveils its demands for better conditions of work and practice
19/07/2022
1,700 blood tests thrown in the garbage at Hôpital Pierre-Le Gardeur: the APTS is appalled
08/07/2022
Crisis in Gaspé labs | The APTS offers solutions to Minister Dubé
23/06/2022
A significant APTS victory | exercising your right to strike should have no impact on your seniority
14/06/2022
Laurent Report, one year later: still no real push to set the course straight
17/05/2022
Deaths in long-term care homes during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic | The APTS asks the Legault government to act quickly in implementing coroner Géhane Kamel’s recommendations
17/05/2022
A strong union for a strong public system | Accessible, sustainable, well-funded, and designed for human beings – the APTS launches a campaign for a better public health and social services system
06/05/2022
The APTS denounces limitations of the 2021-2026 action plan for long-term care facilities
04/05/2022
Estates-General on living conditions for seniors | APTS proudly endorses the joint declaration
01/04/2022
5th anniversary of the OPTILAB system | No lab? No hospital!
31/03/2022
Bill 28 to end the public health emergency | A frontal attack on workers’ rights
22/03/2022
2022 Québec budget: Half measures to attract and retain personnel
28/02/2022
COVID premium | The APTS demands fair treatment for its members
08/02/2022
Changes to the Youth Protection Act | The government’s obligation is to make the Act effective
08/02/2022
Job title: biomedical engineering technical coordinator | The APTS gets a favourable ruling from the arbitrator
03/02/2022
Pre-budget consultations | Innovative APTS proposal to improve the health and social services system
25/01/2022
Public-sector contract talks | APTS signs its new collective agreement
25/01/2022
Inter-ministerial action plan for mental health | Investments are welcome but may be insufficient
24/01/2022
Québec health and welfare commissioner’s report on the first wave of COVID-19 | Recommendations support APTS proposals to improve health care and services in CHSLDs
18/01/2022
Coroner’s inquiry into CHSLD deaths | The APTS presents its final recommendations
28/12/2021
Keeping employees at work when they test positive for COVID-19 but have no symptoms | Risk management approach likely to harm vulnerable people, as well as professionals and technicians
21/12/2021
Contract talks | Agreement in principle is ratified by 55.3% of APTS members
01/12/2021
Bill 15: An Act to amend the Youth Protection Act and other legislative provisions | APTS will act as a watchdog for the Laurent Commission’s “recommendactions”
26/11/2021
Contract talks | Agreement in principle approved by over 81% of APTS General Council delegates who encourage union members to adopt it in general assemblies
25/11/2021
Contract talks | APTS delegates to consider an agreement in principle at a General Council
24/11/2021
Implementing the Laurent Report | APTS calls on MNAs to act now
24/11/2021
Recommendations in the Ombudsperson’s final report meet with highly favourable response from the APTS
18/11/2021
Contract talks | Exasperated APTS delegates stop their Convention to demonstrate
18/11/2021
Robert Comeau elected president at the APTS Convention
08/11/2021
APTS participates in hearings on CHSLD deaths during the first wave of the pandemic
05/11/2021
Contract talks | Exasperated by slow-paced talks, the APTS occupies a government building
20/10/2021
Public-sector contract talks | The APTS is losing patience
01/10/2021
Contract talks will resume for the APTS
30/09/2021
Reform of the Occupational Health and Safety Act | The APTS rejects Bill 59
24/09/2021
Labour shortage in health and social services | The APTS suspends the process of consulting its members about the renewal of their collective agreement
23/09/2021
Labour shortage in the health system | The APTS takes part in estates-general on the future of clinical labs
22/09/2021
Youth protection assessment: another year marked by work overload
08/09/2021
Medical imaging personnel gear up for action in the face of Legault’s deafening silence
07/09/2021
Mandatory vaccination | Breaks in services? The Legault government doesn’t have a plan
26/08/2021
Mandatory vaccination | When the best is the enemy of the good
25/08/2021
Federal election campaign | The APTS wants political parties to make clear commitments on its priorities
05/08/2021
$1,000 premium for some youth workers | The APTS denounces the government for using the public health emergency as a tool to cope with insufficient numbers of youth protection workers
14/07/2021
Contract talks | APTS members will be presented the government’s global offer
13/07/2021
APTS pay equity complaints from 2010 are finally settled after a 10-year battle to have the government comply with the law
30/06/2021
APTS calls on government to lift the public health emergency
25/06/2021
Contract talks | APTS will submit proposed deal to its General Council
21/06/2021
Contract talks | The APTS steps up the pressure with two more strike days
07/06/2021
Contract talks | The APTS launches a general strike to defend accessible, high-quality health care and social services
20/05/2021
Contract talks | 60,000 APTS members to carry out a general strike on June 7, 8, 21 and 22
13/05/2021
Shortage of lab personnel with a post-secondary diploma | Lab results may not be reliable
03/05/2021
The Laurent Commission | The APTS calls on Legault to act without delay to support children and families
20/04/2021
Paid a woman's wage ad campaign
14/04/2021
COVID-19 | Québec must recognize the value of the work carried out by lab personnel
25/03/2021
2021 Québec budget | Nothing to improve working conditions for professionals and technicians battling COVID for the past year
22/03/2021
Documentary on Québec’s youth protection system | The other side of the coin
17/03/2021
The APTS offers its cooperation to Québec’s new provincial youth protection director
26/02/2021
Brutal rent increase in residential facilities | "Penalizing vulnerable people – how is that a good strategy?”
18/02/2021
Private sector contracts for medical imaging | The Legault government is hypocritical
15/02/2021
Death of youth protection workers | The APTS has no words to describe the grief
05/02/2021
Pandemic shows that privatizing mental health services has been a failure
21/01/2021
APTS initiates mediation to obtain a negotiated settlement
21/01/2021
A knife in the back for public sector psychologists
17/12/2020
Senior's residences a lucrative market
30/11/2020
Youth Protection | Commission’s findings and orientations call for immediate and concrete action on the part of the Legault government
26/11/2020
Dangerous increase in wage gap between APTS members and Québec employees as a whole
02/11/2020
Mental health | APTS to Minister Carmant: sustained investment is needed to save the public system
28/10/2020
The APTS welcomes new funding for youth mental health
21/10/2020
The Laurent Commission - Now is the time for the Legault government to commit to implementing the commission’s guidelines
23/09/2020
Youth protection 2020 annual report | We can be “stronger, together” only if urgent need to end work overload is addressed
18/08/2020
COVID-19 | APTS responds to government action plan to tackle second wave
25/05/2020
The APTS presents its brief: Children at the heart of our priorities
08/05/2020
COVID-19 | Conference call with Minister McCann
05/05/2020
COVID-19 | Code of silence in the health and social services system - Action is needed from Minister McCann
15/04/2020
COVID-19 | Red carpet treatment for medical specialists, while health and social services professionals and technicians are thrown a few crumbs
11/04/2020
COVID-19 | APTS calls on Minister McCann to guarantee access to protective equipment for members being sent into CHSLDs
02/04/2020
COVID-19 | Hazard premiums during the pandemic: a first step that needs to be followed by another
29/03/2020
COVID-19 | APTS sends SOS to Legault government
25/03/2020
COVID-19 | Will someone have to die before measures are taken to ensure the safety of our members?
18/03/2020
COVID-19 | The APTS-FIQ alliance will be right there to negotiate all measures
15/10/2018
Much needs to be done to improve youth protection services in Montréal, according to the APTS
27/03/2018
2018-2019 budget in health and social services: reinvestment is welcome but targets are unclear
28/02/2018
"Hello? Anybody there?" The APTS amps up its members’ voice
26/06/2015