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08/12/23

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

07/12/23

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

30/11/23

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

28/11/23

Public-sector contract talks Front commun announces a 3rd series of strike days from December 8 to 14

24/11/23

Front commun activists arrested by the SQ and charged with mischief at a demonstration at a CAQ riding office

23/11/23

Public-sector contract talks | Front commun demonstration in front of the National Assembly

23/11/23

Open Letter | Today, we’re making history

20/11/23

Public-sector contract talks | Front commun asks for conciliation

15/11/23

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

09/11/23

2023 Convention: Robert Comeau reelected as APTS president

06/11/23

The Front commun will be on strike on November 21, 22 and 23

03/11/23

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

29/10/23

Public-sector contract talks | Government makes an insulting offer – again

26/10/23

Public-sector contract talks | Front commun workers will strike on November 6

20/10/23

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

17/10/23

Historic strike mandate for the Front commun: 95% of members vote yes

16/10/23

OHS week | Don’t jeopardize your health – make a report!

02/10/23

Extension of the psychiatry premium: the APTS scores a first victory before the arbitrator

26/09/23

Government statements: Front commun is waiting for concrete outcomes

21/09/23

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

18/09/23

Survey shows public opinion is favourable to workers

14/09/23

Government refuses to extend certain premiums beyond September 30

11/09/23

Front commun looks ahead to unlimited general strike

29/06/23

Compensation for biomedical engineering technical coordinators and executive assistants | Government stubbornly committed to acting in bad faith

28/06/23

Health and social service contract talks | Unions sharply critical of measures that would make working conditions worse

27/06/23

Public-sector bargaining talks: an update as summer begins

19/06/23

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

15/06/23

Public-sector contract talks | APTS members demonstrate at the Ontario border against the exodus of professionals and technicians in health and social services

14/06/23

Coroner’s report on suicide in Québec | Québec’s public system must provide access to mental health services

13/06/23

Evaluation of youth protection in Québec: future looks grim for an ailing system

08/06/23

Case won by a biomedical engineer of Romanian origin

08/06/23

Bill 15 | Health care unions sharply critical of a bill that will increase centralization and pander to the private sector

01/06/23

Bad-faith bargaining and interference in union activities: APTS takes the government to court

19/05/23

The APTS welcomes the reelection of Caroline Senneville as CSN president

13/05/23

Public-sector contract talks | The Front commun is incensed and ratchets up the pressure

09/05/23

Bill 15 | The APTS tells the government to change course

02/05/23

International Workers’Day | Who benefits from inflation? Not us!

25/04/23

The government wants to devalue nurse clinician specialists, buyers, and clinical sexologists

24/04/23

The MSSS intends to abolish the graduate medical laboratory technician job title

17/04/23

2010 pay equity audit: CNESST sends notices of decisions

17/04/23

BILL 15 Health care unions lay the basis for dialogue

12/04/23

Health and social service contract talks | Time to step up the pace

04/04/23

Home-support services | APTS reacts to report on aging well at home

03/04/23

Rising-scale COVID premium: a landmark decision

30/03/23

Public sector contract talks | Collective agreements set to expire: As the weather heats up, we’re getting ready to spring into action!

29/03/23

New health agency Santé Québec | Health reform gets off on the wrong foot

27/03/23

The Front commun acknowledges Québec’s new offer

23/03/23

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

22/03/23

2023-2024 budget | APTS condemns vote-seeking tax cuts carried out at the expense of public services

17/03/23

Meeting with Minister Biron | The Collectif 8 mars is left unsatisfied

14/03/23

Bill on independent labour | The APTS criticizes Bill 10 for its glaring omissions

08/03/23

Public-sector contract talks | Feminist resistance: Front commun demands better pay for women employed in public services

06/03/23

Increasing your work hours to 37.5 h/week - it's up to you

24/02/23

OPTILAB | APTS calls for a moratorium on construction of the Montérégie hub lab

23/02/23

Open letter | Feminist Resistance and the Climate Emergency

22/02/23

International Women’s Rights Day | The CAQ has to quit being afraid of its shadow

22/02/23

Public-sector contract talks | Vague and disconnected offers to improve mental health services

16/02/23

A two-tier lab system | The APTS calls for decentralization

16/02/23

Front commun sets the record straight after government’s misleading statements

15/02/23

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

15/02/23

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

31/01/23

For the new parliamentary session | APTS presents its checklist for health and social services

25/01/23

Public-sector contract talks | Government offers rejected by the Front commun

19/01/23

The APTS welcomes Magali Picard as newly elected president of the FTQ

18/01/23

Minimum wage increase to $15.25 an hour | Too little too late, says coalition for $18 minimum wage

21/12/22

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

15/12/22

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

11/12/22

Shortage of psychologists in the public sector - Unions protest lack of government action

08/12/22

Day of action for youth centres | Youth workers cry out for support: “Are you ever going to help me?”

01/12/22

Union members ratify historic agreement at Pointe-Saint-Charles Community Clinic

30/11/22

Unions react to the ISQ report on Québec public service employees’ remuneration : catch-up increases are needed to close the ongoing wage gap

24/11/22

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

03/11/22

Ministry of Health and Social Services blamed for being rigid and inflexible

02/11/22

The APTS unveils its demands for better conditions of work and practice

28/10/22

2023 Negotiations | “Together as one” | The Front commun tables its demands

24/10/22

Health and social services unions criticize the MSSS for choosing once again to act alone

28/09/22

Public-sector contract talks | Front commun widens as APTS becomes a member

25/08/22

Crisis in radiation oncology | CISSS de l’Outaouais called to order by APTS

22/08/22

Health and social services | repeat offender government is targeted by new complaints

21/07/22

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

19/07/22

1,700 blood tests thrown in the garbage at Hôpital Pierre-Le Gardeur: the APTS is appalled

08/07/22

Crisis in Gaspé labs | The APTS offers solutions to Minister Dubé

14/06/22

Laurent Report, one year later: still no real push to set the course straight

01/06/22

Health and social services: losing pay over COVID-19 is unacceptable

25/05/22

Contract talks in the public and parapublic sectors | Solidarity protocol concluded by the APTS and the FSSS-CSN

17/05/22

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

17/05/22

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

09/05/22

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

06/05/22

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

04/05/22

Estates-General on living conditions for seniors | APTS proudly endorses the joint declaration

06/04/22

Pay equity maintenance: why are payments still delayed, and what is the government waiting for?

01/04/22

5th anniversary of the OPTILAB system | No lab? No hospital!

31/03/22

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

30/03/22

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

29/03/22

Health care reform: cooperation required to rebuild the system

22/03/22

2022 Québec budget: Half measures to attract and retain personnel

28/02/22

COVID premium | The APTS demands fair treatment for its members

14/02/22

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

08/02/22

Job title: biomedical engineering technical coordinator | The APTS gets a favourable ruling from the arbitrator

08/02/22

Changes to the Youth Protection Act | The government’s obligation is to make the Act effective

03/02/22

Pre-budget consultations | Innovative APTS proposal to improve the health and social services system

25/01/22

Public-sector contract talks | APTS signs its new collective agreement

25/01/22

Inter-ministerial action plan for mental health | Investments are welcome but may be insufficient

24/01/22

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

18/01/22

Coroner’s inquiry into CHSLD deaths | The APTS presents its final recommendations

13/01/22

Government’s greater openness is welcomed by coalition of health and social service unions

28/12/21

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

21/12/21

Contract talks | Agreement in principle is ratified by 55.3% of APTS members

01/12/21

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”

29/11/21

Contract talks | Agreement in principle approved by over 81% of APTS General Council delegates who encourage union members to adopt it in general assemblies

25/11/21

Contract talks | APTS delegates to consider an agreement in principle at a General Council

24/11/21

Implementing the Laurent Report | APTS calls on MNAs to act now

24/11/21

Recommendations in the Ombudsperson’s final report meet with highly favourable response from the APTS

18/11/21

Contract talks | Exasperated APTS delegates stop their Convention to demonstrate

18/11/21

Robert Comeau elected president at the APTS Convention

08/11/21

APTS participates in hearings on CHSLD deaths during the first wave of the pandemic

05/11/21

Contract talks | Exasperated by slow-paced talks, the APTS occupies a government building

20/10/21

Public-sector contract talks | The APTS is losing patience

01/10/21

Contract talks will resume for the APTS

30/09/21

Reform of the Occupational Health and Safety Act | The APTS rejects Bill 59

24/09/21

Labour shortage in health and social services | The APTS suspends the process of consulting its members about the renewal of their collective agreement

23/09/21

Labour shortage in the health system | The APTS takes part in estates-general on the future of clinical labs

22/09/21

Youth protection assessment: another year marked by work overload

08/09/21

Medical imaging personnel gear up for action in the face of Legault’s deafening silence

07/09/21

Mandatory vaccination | Breaks in services? The Legault government doesn’t have a plan

26/08/21

Mandatory vaccination | When the best is the enemy of the good

25/08/21

Federal election campaign | The APTS wants political parties to make clear commitments on its priorities

05/08/21

$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

14/07/21

Contract talks | APTS members will be presented the government’s global offer

13/07/21

APTS pay equity complaints from 2010 are finally settled after a 10-year battle to have the government comply with the law

30/06/21

APTS calls on government to lift the public health emergency

25/06/21

Contract talks | APTS will submit proposed deal to its General Council

21/06/21

Contract talks | The APTS steps up the pressure with two more strike days

07/06/21

Contract talks | The APTS launches a general strike to defend accessible, high-quality health care and social services

20/05/21

Contract talks | 60,000 APTS members to carry out a general strike on June 7, 8, 21 and 22

13/05/21

Shortage of lab personnel with a post-secondary diploma | Lab results may not be reliable

07/05/21

The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l'île-de-Montréal

07/05/21

The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal

07/05/21

The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS West-Central Montreal

07/05/21

The APTS gets a strong mandate for strike action: CIUSSS Montréal West Island

04/05/21

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

20/04/21

Paid a woman's wage ad campaign

14/04/21

COVID-19 | Québec must recognize the value of the work carried out by lab personnel

25/03/21

2021 Québec budget | Nothing to improve working conditions for professionals and technicians battling COVID for the past year

22/03/21

Documentary on Québec’s youth protection system | The other side of the coin

17/03/21

The APTS offers its cooperation to Québec’s new provincial youth protection director

26/02/21

Brutal rent increase in residential facilities | "Penalizing vulnerable people – how is that a good strategy?”

18/02/21

Private sector contracts for medical imaging | The Legault government is hypocritical

15/02/21

Death of youth protection workers | The APTS has no words to describe the grief

08/02/21

Pandemic shows that privatizing mental health services has been a failure

29/01/21

Aerosols | Minister Dubé’s inconsistency continues to jeopardize workers’ health

28/01/21

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

21/01/21

A knife in the back for public sector psychologists

21/01/21

APTS initiates mediation to obtain a negotiated settlement

30/11/20

Youth Protection | Commission’s findings and orientations call for immediate and concrete action on the part of the Legault government

26/11/20

Dangerous increase in wage gap between APTS members and Québec employees as a whole

20/11/20

CAQ MNAs refuse to meet with spokespersons of professionals and technicians employed in the health and social services system

03/11/20

Mental health | APTS to Minister Carmant: sustained investment is needed to save the public system

29/10/20

The APTS welcomes new funding for youth mental health

22/10/20

The Laurent Commission - Now is the time for the Legault government to commit to implementing the commission’s guidelines

23/09/20

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

19/08/20

COVID-19 | APTS responds to government action plan to tackle second wave

05/08/20

CISSS Montérégie-Ouest professionals and technicians call for services to be maintained at Hôpital du Suroît’s mother-child centre

01/06/20

COVID 19 | APTS denounces poor management of the pandemic at the Résidence Angelica

26/05/20

The APTS presents its brief: Children at the heart of our priorities

08/05/20

COVID-19 | Conference call with Minister McCann

05/05/20

COVID-19 | Code of silence in the health and social services system - Action is needed from Minister McCann

16/04/20

COVID-19 | Red carpet treatment for medical specialists, while health and social services professionals and technicians are thrown a few crumbs

11/04/20

COVID-19 | APTS calls on Minister McCann to guarantee access to protective equipment for members being sent into CHSLDs

03/04/20

COVID-19 | Hazard premiums during the pandemic: a first step that needs to be followed by another

29/03/20

COVID-19 | APTS sends SOS to Legault government

25/03/20

COVID-19 | Will someone have to die before measures are taken to ensure the safety of our members?

18/03/20

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

16/03/20

COVID-19 | The health and safety of all Québecers is the labour unions' priority

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