The CSQ and the Alliance du personnel professionnel et technique de la santé et des services sociaux (APTS) are demanding that the Quebec government be required to pay them damages, due to the law that allows it to end a labour dispute and impose arbitration.

In its challenge to the constitutionality of the law, the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ) is asking the Superior Court to force Quebec to pay exemplary and punitive damages “because of the unlawful and intentional infringement of the fundamental rights of the employees” it represents.

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APTS is also asking the Superi

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