Quebec reaches agreement in principle with home daycare workers, ending strikes [Video]

Quebec has reached an agreement in principle with unions representing thousands of home daycare workers who have been carrying out strike actions for weeks.

The agreement concerns only the family-run childcare sector, which has nearly 9,000 members. Negotiations are still ongoing for the early childhood centres (CPE) sector.

Members of the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) affiliated Fédération des intervenantes en petite enfance (FIPEQ) had four walk-outs since mid-November, both in public and family daycares, where services were offered later and later each week. The union tabled its demands in September 2023, and negotiations only started in the spring.

“Big news today! An agreement in principle was reached at the negotiating table for the family education services sector. Concerted actions are suspended and educational services will go back to normal,” the FIPEQ-CSQ announced in a Facebook post.

According to the office of the Minister responsible for Government Administration and …