Montreal – Four faculty groups of McGill University have initiated a constitutional challenge of a Quebec bill that allows the Provincial Labor Minister to end the attacks.
Association, which represents 500 academics, states that the bill prohibits the constitutional rights of the strike.
They are asking the Quebec Superior Court to declare the bill unconstitutional and invalid, calling it a “frontier attack” on the rights of the workers.
The law was adopted in May and will apply in November.
This expands the types of services that must be maintained in a position of strike or lockout.
This gives the Labor Minister discretion to end a task stagnation if it is considered to cause serious or irreparable harm.
Faculty groups say that the bill gives employers an incentive to delay negotiations in the hope that the government will intervene.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on August 5, 2025.
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