The president of the Quebec Federation of Labor (FTQ), Daniel Boyer, announced Monday that he will not seek a new mandate next November.
Mr. Boyer, who has held this position since 2013, announced Monday at noon, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of FTQthat he would not be a candidate for re -election at the central convention, next November in Montreal.
He was elected for the first time as Secretary General of FTQ in 2010, a position he held until his election as President of the Federation in 2013, succeeding Michel Arsenault.
Daniel Boyer is a beneficiary attendant at a CHSLD in Verdun, to pay for educationwhen he began to be active in the union movement in 1978, suggests a statement from FTQrepresenting more than 600,000 workers in Quebec.
He then rose into the ranks of union action, became vice president then president of his local unit, was union councilor and president of the Quebec Union of Service Employees (SQEES-298), before being elected to top management of FTQ.
On April 3, Mr. Boyer, along with leaders of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) and Central Trade Unions of Quebec (CSQ), announced the formation of a “common front” of the three largest union centers in Quebec. , due to negotiations of 2023 public sector collective agreements.
Throughout his career, Daniel Boyer has not stopped fighting to demand better working conditions and better wages, as well as lifting the poorest people out of poverty, using all the platforms he can use.indicates FTQ. In each of his speeches, Daniel Boyer continued to campaign for better social communication with governments.
A busy spring
Mr. Boyer will have an event in the spring. On April 28, we learned that a woman was, 10 years ago, the victim of sexual harassment and assault on the part of Rénald Grondin, then director of the Association of Inter-Provincial Maneuvers, of FTQwhich did not hinder his presidency of importance FTQ-Construction. Mr. Grondin resigned on the very day of the publication of these revelations in The Press.
Daniel Boyer then wrote in a press release that Mr. Grondin’s resignation should not end the conversation in sexual harassment in the workplace. We have to wonder about the impunity that allowed this year to reach the presidency of one of the largest unions in Quebec.he wrote.
Then, on May 3, the FTQ-Construction announced that it has been adopted an action plan to adopt measures to combat psychological and sexual harassment as soon as possible. A proposal that did not convince the Quebec Minister of Labor. Jean Boulet then asked the President directly FTQDaniel Boyer, of turn on the light in the Grondin affair.
Tomorrow is FTQ and the FTQ-Construction announced an independent investigation into to get to the bottom of things in this file. The two organizations also announced Monday that they have entrusted Me Anaïs Lacroix, an attorney specializing in labor law with the Latitude Management company, with a mandate to conduct this investigation.
Source: Radio-Canada
