“The climate crisis is not very present in the electoral campaign and we find that a little disturbing,” underlines Amélie Therrien, president of the Syndicat des enseignantes et enseignants du cégep Montmorency (SEECM). “It’s a must to mobilize collectively in order to respond to this lack of political will.”

Some SEECM members were already in front of the CEGEP at 7 o’clock.

“For the teachers of Collège Montmorency, the climate situation isn’t technical, but political,” the SEECM said. “It depends directly on our ability to organize ourselves and collectively limit our consumption, for the sake of justice. In this sense, they’re especially calling for a complete exit from fossil fuels by 2030, as well as a massive reinvestment in public services and the social safety net.”

translated by Alec Brideau

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In total, the CSQ and the FPEP-CSQ are asking for four actions, which, in their opinion, will make a difference for all workers of the private sector.

First, they want to put an end to “abusive pedagogical differentiation”, which consists in treating teachers who work in private schools differently.

“Like what happened in our public school system, the situation hasn’t been easy for the staff in private educational institutions over the past two years of the pandemic,” said Éric Gingras, president of the CSQ.

The request follows the thinking that “a teacher in a private school isn’t a private teacher”, which the unions advocate.

The second action is to cancel the project of forced online teaching. The unions assure, via press release, that the educational and working conditions won’t be there, and that this type of education must be prohibited.

The CSQ and the FPEP-CSQ are also asking to put an end to the schedule overload, with tasks that are outside the pedagogical framework.

They’re saying that “staff must be freed up, especially during pedagogical days, so that they can devote themselves fully to the heart of their job.”

The fourth action required is to give teachers more freedom as to the pedagogical strategies to adopt for student success. (J.B./IJL)

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