Striking Quebec residential construction workers mark one week of job action
Posted June 4, 2025 6:19 pm.
Last Updated June 4, 2025 6:20 pm.
The Alliance syndicale de la construction marked one week of the residential construction strike in Quebec by demonstrating Wednesday in front of one of the APCHQ offices in Anjou.
The Alliance represents 200,000 workers in the construction industry through its five union organizations.
Approximately 60,000 of them work in residential construction.
The strike began at 12:01 a.m. on May 28 following unsuccessful last-ditch negotiations between the Alliance and the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec (APCHQ).
Discussions have not yet broken off; the parties have met since the strike began. And a mediator has already been assigned to facilitate discussions.
“We have a good mobilization in front of the APCHQ today to remind the APCHQ that we are not going to stop our (demands),” said Alliance spokesperson Alexandre Ricard. “And the most thing that is the problem is the salary, the rates. So we continue to fight for better salary on the residential.
“We have many contractors that pay more than the collective agreement. As same as the other collective agreement in the commercial that have better rates than in a light residential. So we don’t know why the APCHQ don’t want to go in front and sign a deal that adds the same augmentation of the other sector that we have.”
The other three sectors of the construction industry already settled their contracts, even before their collective agreements expired at the end of April.
