Montreal and Laval legal-aid lawyers on a 5-day strike during the holidays
Posted December 23, 2022 5:51 pm.
Legal-aid lawyers in Montreal and Laval are holding a strike until December 27, as they remain without a contract agreement with the Quebec government.
With salaries being the point of contention in the contract negotiations, legal-aid lawyers are seeking wage parity with their colleagues in the Crown Prosecutor’s office.
According to the Montreal and Laval Legal Aid Union (CSN), the government planned on filing a complaint with the Administrative Labour Tribunal in order to halt the strike, but the plan was abandoned.
The union believes that the Quebec government dropped this plan and chose, instead, to impose holiday working schedules and disciplinary actions against lawyers who plan on participating in the holiday strike.
However, the union president Justine Lambert-Boulianne stated the union’s refusal to give in to these intimidation tactics.
