Reflections with a student organizer and support worker
Series:
Massive cuts in Quebec's public sector
After years of cuts under the Charest and Couillard Liberal governments, the CAQ is continuing in the same direction. But cutting back does not make needs disappear. Legault’s reforms, under the pretext of efficiency, are primarily paving the way for the private sector, which is now profiting from a growing share of public services.
Cuts to French language training
12 workers lose their jobs at the Cégep de Saint-Laurent
Service cuts and hiring freezes
A group of workers is organizing a response to austerity
CEGEP Saint-Laurent strike week begins with occupation
Students picket over chronic underfunding and job cuts
“We’re just kicking the can down the road”
Uncertainty for support workers as an underfunded CEGEP crumbles
Coupures en éducation
Testimonials and discontent follow the start of the school year in Quebec
Paramedic contract talks
Quebec paramedics launch general strike, denounce government’s ‘contempt’
Quebec colleges face historic austerity measures
Workers and students condemn higher education cuts
Quebec increases private health care spending
Bureaucracy and health care costs explode, the CAQ betrays its commitments
Zol’s perspective
Budget cuts
