A New Bill in Québec Could Create an ‘Exception’ to Every Worker’s Right to Strike

Agreed. About 20 years ago in Nova Scotia, nurses were negotiating for a 17% pay increase over 3 years. The province didn’t want to pay, so they passed legislation taking away the nurses’ right to strike.

They walked out anyway. And got their 17%.

Since Legault took power in 2018, I've come to remember him for:

• Thinking the been on face coverings and religious symbols hasn't gone far enough
• Blaming nurses, not employers, for patients' issues rising from the nurses' strike
• Bill 96, which has let them require all businesses have French signage (replaced at their own cost), prohibition of already-existing English government resources, and limits the number of students in English speaking schools
• Limiting funding to English-speaking universities in Montreal
• Limiting immigration in an attempt to make sure that a limited amount of non-French speakers move in
• Forming a committee literally named "The Committee of Sages" in order to determine protections and rights for trans people, which also has no trans people, or any LGBTQ+ people
• Advocating for removal of an anti-Palestinian protest camped out on a university's grounds

And now for fucking with strike protections. When the one good thing I can think to say is "He didn't fuck up the COVID response," that's a pretty bad track record.