This issue covers the Special Provincial Council that was held on September 10th.

The Outaouais healthcare professionals, very angry at the recent statements made by Josée Filion, President-Executive Director of the CISSS de l’Outaouais, demonstrated at lunch time simultaneously in front of the Hôpital de Gatineau and Buckingham. Nancy Bédard, President of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec – FIQ joined the demonstrators in Gatineau supporting their demands and denouncing the situation that has persisted for…

The Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec —  FIQ is arguing its case today at the Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) asking that the Tribunal review the decision rendered last April 25th. In that decision, the TAT refused to exercise its jurisdiction over the institutions using mandatory overtime (MOT) as a management method. The FIQ quickly indicated its desire to appeal and filed a motion…

The FIQ – Syndicat des professionnelles en soins de l’Outaouais (FIQ – SPSO) met with Mathieu Lacombe, Minister for the Outaouais region, and Josée Filion, President—Executive Director of the Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de l’Outaouais, to let them know about the urgent need for action in light of the healthcare professionals’ exhaustion and distress. The minister contacted the FIQ -…

Summer has been hot, very hot. Especially for the healthcare professionals who have increased working hours and taken over for their colleagues during their well-deserved vacation. You tell us every day and the provincial day without MOT on April 8 showed this: you can no longer tolerate it, and it has been a long time. The many projects conducted by the local teams to end…