November 6, 2017.
Public sector unions should learn to use their imagination to put pressure on politicians and no longer on the people. In an interview with The Canadian Press, the president of the Interprofessional Health Federation gives her impression of the principle of the strike.
The strike does not target the right people
Is going on strike today an outdated means of pressure? This is what Régine Laurent implied, in an interview with The Canadian Press. As she is preparing to leave her post of president of the Interprofessional Health Federation (FIQ) on 1er next December, the woman who now represents more than 75,000 health professionals in Quebec confided in her feelings about these movements used by unions.
For those who lived, as closely as possible, the strikes of 1989 and 1999, the idea of implementing a movement that would embarrass the population, even before forcing the administrations targeted by the unions, has now become difficult to hear. ” People are working more; they arrive more difficult; they spend an hour and a half in the car in the morning and two hours in the afternoon. So, we can’t take actions that will disturb this population. She explained.
Unions must be imaginative
“Yes, it gave things in the past, and for us the first ones “, She notes however during this interview,” but today, we cannot remain on an automatic system of pressure tactics “, Still considers the president.
If the strike is not qualified by Régine Laurent as a means of pressure totally exceeded, this calls on union officials to be more creative in their actions. ” Very humbly, I would invite them to perhaps more imagination. Me, I think that we cannot stay on what has already been done in terms of means of action and means of pressure “, She launches, inviting in particular to be more” ratious ” in ” annoying elected officials “, for example…
Gaelle Latour
