The Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE) is preparing to contest Quebec’s new legislation that allows the government to end a labour dispute and impose arbitration, taking the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Fédération autonome de l’enseignement (FAE) and its affiliated unions are thus following the CSQ, the CSN, the FTQ, the CSD and the APTS, who had done the same in recent days by filing an appeal with the Superior Court.

Related: • Unions file court challenge to Quebec labour law to end strikes • Labour unions protest against Quebec’s Bill 89 aimed at limiting strikes, maintaining services • Strikes and lockouts: Bill 89 in the sights of unions

The law was passed last spring, but it came into effect on Nov. 30. Bill 14 is better known by its former name, Bill

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