Sonia Lebel: Defender of Networks

What do health, education and family ministers have in common?

They all face the same problem: a major labor shortage.

And they all need Sonia Lebel to fix it.

The President of the Treasury Board should make Quebec the employer of choice. Its first real test is fast approaching: collective agreements expiring in March 2023!

Nurses

We’ve never had so many nurses in Quebec, but most of them are leaving people.

They need better working conditions. They need more flexibility and powers.

Quebec’s Order of Nurses told me that they have already taken steps to perpetuate some of the measures taken during COVID-19. But unions and government must now agree to implement more solutions.

For children

The same is true for teachers and professionals in the Education Network.

If we want to attract teachers, speech therapists, psychologists or other professionals, we need to provide them with favorable conditions. We also need to find a way to make life easier for those in the network to keep them.

Ditto for educators at daycare.

The final negotiations were difficult, but in order to achieve CAQ’s goal of subsidized space for all children, Sonia LeBel must come to the negotiating table with new, better offers.

Money, but not only

In many cases, salaries have to be revised upwards, especially due to inflation. That shouldn’t be a problem, the government is swimming in enough money to send checks to families making $200,000 a year…

However, money is not enough.

Both government and unions need to show creativity, a bit of courage and above all flexibility.

We want concrete solutions, we want agreements, but we don’t want strikes.

No one wants months of negotiations over a few percentage points.

In whose name?

Minister Sonia Lebel is negotiating on behalf of the CAQ government, which represents Quebecers.

These Quebecers aren’t just taxpayers. They are parents with children in school, the sick, even the elderly with increasingly important needs.

The government must negotiate on behalf of all these Quebecers to give workers, especially women, the resources they need.

It’s not complicated, it’s the future of our networks at stake!

If that doesn’t work… well! We can always ask management firm McKinsey to handle this for us! In any case, they have already turned their noses up at the affairs of the state…