{"id":30639,"date":"2025-05-28T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/quebec-residential-construction-workers-have-walked-off-the-job\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T01:05:43","slug":"quebec-residential-construction-workers-have-walked-off-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/quebec-residential-construction-workers-have-walked-off-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec residential construction workers have walked off the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Workers in Quebec\u2019s residential construction sector are now on strike.<\/p>\n<p>The workers walked off the job at midnight after last-minute talks failed to yield a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The employer, the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l\u2019habitation du Qu\u00e9bec, \u00a0said it made a final offer on Tuesday that included an 18 per cent salary hike over four years.<\/p>\n<p>Union representatives said they were calling for raises of 22 per cent for workers building five-to-six storey buildings and 24.3 per cent for those working on smaller buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The workers are represented by an alliance of five different construction sector unions.<\/p>\n<p>Together they represent about 200,000 workers, but only those involved in residential construction are on strike.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/labour\/2025\/05\/quebec-residential-construction-workers-have-walked-off-the-job\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] MONTREAL \u2014 Workers in Quebec\u2019s residential construction sector are now on strike. The workers walked off the job at &#8230; <a title=\"Quebec residential construction workers have walked off the job\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/quebec-residential-construction-workers-have-walked-off-the-job\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Quebec residential construction workers have walked off the job\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-30639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}