The Quebec Federation of Labor (FTQ) intends to oppose the tax cuts that the Legault government wants and demand a significant increase in the minimum wage in Quebec.
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“Who will finance public services once there is no more money in the coffers? (…) It is not one-off gift certificates that will lift the world out of poverty”, argued this morning the president of the FTQ, Daniel Boyer.
During a press conference at its head office on boulevard Crémazie in Montreal, the leaders of the union organization reminded the government that the population should be able to live “decently and with dignity, without wondering every day whether will have enough to eat on the table or [sans] having to choose between his medicine or his food.
On the subject of the minimum wage, the union reiterated its intention to demand a significant increase. The latter is currently set at $14.25 per hour. The union deems it necessary that it be raised this winter to $18 an hour.
“It is scandalous to hear certain millionaire business leaders oppose an increase, those who are swimming in abundance, those who in 2021 earned 243 times the average salary of workers,” said the president. Boyer, together with Denis Bolduc, general secretary of the FTQ.
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