Quebec residential construction strike day 3: negotiations to continue
Posted May 30, 2025 12:18 pm.
Last Updated May 30, 2025 12:20 pm.
The Alliance syndicale de la construction and the APCHQ will continue talks despite the residential construction strike, now in its third day on Friday.
The Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec (APCHQ) and the Alliance syndicale de la construction met on Thursday afternoon, in the presence of the mediator assigned to the case. Although no agreement was reached on the renewal of the collective agreement, the two parties agreed to continue discussions, despite the strike, they confirmed on Friday.
The collective agreement expired on April 30. And, unlike in other economic sectors, wage increases negotiated in the construction industry are not retroactive to the expiry date of the previous collective agreement. Striking residential construction workers are therefore losing money they won’t get back, because the collective agreement is not renewed when it expires.
The industry’s three other sectors – civil engineering/roads, institutional/commercial and industrial – settled before the collective agreements expired. The wage increases agreed are 8 per cent for 2025, 5 per cent for 2026, 5 per cent for 2027 and 4 per cent for 2028.
The Alliance syndicale brings together all the construction unions, which together represent 200,000 workers. Some 60,000 of these work in residential construction.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
