Authorized help attorneys in Quebec maintain half-day strike

A bunch of authorized help attorneys is happening strike for half a day on Monday, whereas the renewal of their collective settlement stays unresolved with the Quebec authorities.

The group is made up of attorneys hooked up to the CSN-affiliated Fédération des professionnels, who have been on strike within the morning after they walked out earlier this month.

In mid-June, attorneys within the Montreal-Laval, Bas Saint-Laurent-Gaspésie and Laurentides-Lanaudière areas additionally voted in favor of one other strike mandate, this time for seven days, to be exercised on the applicable time.

The opposite group, the Fédération des avocates et avocats de l’aide juridique, a gaggle impartial of the central labor our bodies that has 210 members, has nonetheless not concluded the renewal of its collective settlement both.

Each organizations are searching for parity in pay with prison prosecutors.

— This report by The Canadian Press was first printed in French on June 27, 2022.