
30/01/2025

23/01/2025
Where are our premiums? The government and Santé Québec need to quit passing the buck

18/12/2024
97% in favour of the tentative deal: a victory for APTS members at the INSPQ

02/12/2024
APTS demonstration in downtown Montréal | Santé Québec is no Christmas present

28/11/2024
ISQ report on employee compensation in 2024: comparative status and trends | Front commun agreement has reduced the compensation gap

18/11/2024
Budget cuts announced | The APTS denounces the return of austerity in health and social services
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!

01/10/2024
The APTS obtains additional premiums for youth protection

12/07/2024
APTS and Québec government sign agreement to widen access to incentive premium for Outaouais medical imaging technologists

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

06/05/2024
Moving forward for the future of our labs | APTS focus day brings many different partners together

01/05/2024
May Day march | International Workers’ Day: United to make our voices heard

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

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

29/02/2024
Ruling on bad-faith bargaining and interference in union activities | Labour tribunal puts repeat offender government in its place

23/02/2024
Public-sector bargaining talks | The Front commun confirms the adoption of the tentative deal

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

07/01/2024
420,000 Front commun workers now have the floor

28/12/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Proposed tentative deal at the central bargaining table for 420,000 Front commun workers

24/12/2023
Public-sector contract talks | The APTS has reached a hypothetical tentative agreement at the sectoral table

20/12/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Front commun will launch an unlimited general strike early in 2024 unless a deal is reached

10/12/2023
Contract talks in health and social services | Workers have been stretched to the limit for too long

08/12/2023
Public-sector contract talks | 420,000 Front commun members begin a 7-day strike

08/12/2023
Government will invoke closure to ensure hurried adoption of Dubé reform | Quebecers’ health and social safety net in jeopardy

07/12/2023
Government now offering 12.7% | No agreement is possible without a mechanism to protect purchasing power and a catch-up pay increase

30/11/2023
Front commun reacts to ISQ report on remuneration of Québec public service employees | Urgent need for catch-up pay increases

15/11/2023
Health and social services contract talks | Organization of work: government is talking out of both sides of its mouth

06/11/2023
The Front commun will be on strike on November 21, 22 and 23

03/11/2023
Health and social service contract talks | Government puts an end to double rate for overtime pay, fuelling workers’ anger

29/10/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Government makes an insulting offer – again

26/10/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Front commun workers will strike on November 6

20/10/2023
A lighter administrative burden for workers providing home care | Measures look promising if the right conditions are in place

21/09/2023
Québec Ombudsman’s annual report 2022-2023 | When public services are severely impaired by staff shortages

18/09/2023
Survey shows public opinion is favourable to workers

11/09/2023
Front commun looks ahead to unlimited general strike

27/06/2023
Public-sector bargaining talks: an update as summer begins

19/06/2023
Three technologists out of five considered leaving the public sector in the past year | APTS des Laurentides sounds the alarm

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

09/05/2023
Bill 15 | The APTS tells the government to change course

01/05/2023
International Workers’Day | Who benefits from inflation? Not us!

25/04/2023
The government wants to devalue nurse clinician specialists, buyers, and clinical sexologists

24/04/2023
The MSSS intends to abolish the graduate medical laboratory technician job title

17/04/2023
BILL 15 Health care unions lay the basis for dialogue

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

27/03/2023
The Front commun acknowledges Québec’s new offer

23/03/2023
Superior Court dismisses health and social service ministry’s case | Biomedical engineering technical coordinators are finally granted the recognition they deserve

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
Union demonstration at Montréal West Island CIUSSS: “Our employer is living in a fantasy world”

15/02/2023
A bill on independent workers in the health and social services sector | More is needed to stop the hemorrhaging

25/01/2023
Public-sector contract talks | Government offers rejected by the Front commun

21/12/2022
Government contract offers in the health and social service sector | Unions don’t want a rerun of the same bad movie

15/12/2022
Front commun reacts to government offers | Making public service workers poorer is worst possible option

11/12/2022
Shortage of psychologists in the public sector - Unions protest lack of government action

01/12/2022
Union members ratify historic agreement at Pointe-Saint-Charles Community Clinic

24/11/2022
Shortage of psychologists in the public sector | Unions ask for meeting with five ministers to break the stalemate

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

28/10/2022
2023 Negotiations | “Together as one” | The Front commun tables its demands

24/10/2022
Health and social services unions criticize the MSSS for choosing once again to act alone

22/08/2022
Health and social services | repeat offender government is targeted by new complaints

21/07/2022
Overtime paid double to contend with the labour shortage this summer | “Too little, too late,” according to public-sector unions

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

01/06/2022
Health and social services: losing pay over COVID-19 is unacceptable

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

09/05/2022
Unions in health and social services call for government to engage in dialogue to plan for a better summer

06/05/2022
The APTS denounces limitations of the 2021-2026 action plan for long-term care facilities

31/03/2022
Bill 28 to end the public health emergency | A frontal attack on workers’ rights

30/03/2022
“COVID premiums” for another month: still on the rollercoaster with no permanent solutions in sight

29/03/2022
Health care reform: cooperation required to rebuild the system

22/03/2022
2022 Québec budget: Half measures to attract and retain personnel

14/02/2022
More delays from the government in paying what health and social services workers are owed | Women to pay the price – again

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

13/01/2022
Government’s greater openness is welcomed by coalition of health and social service unions

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

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

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

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

07/05/2021
The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS Montréal West Island

07/05/2021
The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS West-Central Montreal

07/05/2021
The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (1)

07/05/2021
The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS Montréal West Island (1)

03/05/2021
The Laurent Commission | The APTS calls on Legault to act without delay to support children and families

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

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

23/09/2020
Youth protection 2020 annual report | We can be “stronger, together” only if urgent need to end work overload is addressed

25/05/2020
COVID 19 | APTS denounces poor management of the pandemic at the Résidence Angelica

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

18/03/2020
COVID-19 | The APTS-FIQ alliance will be right there to negotiate all measures

28/01/2020
Investments in the Douglas Institute: all funds earmarked for buildings made of concrete, none for personnel

08/07/2019
Illegitimate suspension of local APTS union president - Unacceptable!

15/10/2018
Much needs to be done to improve youth protection services in Montréal, according to the APTS

14/06/2018
APTS opposes the kind of “continuity” chosen by interim director of the Montréal West Island IUHSSC

27/03/2018
2018-2019 budget in health and social services: reinvestment is welcome but targets are unclear

28/02/2018