The union representing employees at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec announced Sunday evening it had reached an agreement in principle with the employer.
The union, affiliated with the CSN, had launched a five-day strike on Thursday in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec’s (BAnQ) 13 locations and did not rule out the possibility of launching an unlimited general strike.
The 350 employees of the United Library and Archives of Quebec have been without a collective agreement since March 2020 and have not received a salary increase in the last five years.
The Canadian Press reported, “In the negotiations, the union deplored, among other things, the BAnQ’s ‘underfunding,’ which ’cause problems of workforce stability and cause waves of layoffs with each wage increase since the employer can no longer support its labour costs.'”
