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– Last week, the 14 January, the 6000 Toronto outside workers joined the 20 000 White-collar workers who seek a strike mandate to their union in negotiations of collective agreements.

– Also last week, Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (SCFP) have been accused of intimidation by the Minister Victor Boudreau because they remained standing during the speech of the latter, then left. The spokesman of the union, Noma Robinson a déclaré : "We are not participating in the conversation. We are not talking to the public, but we report our presence. We are very respectful. We listen to the Minister's presentation, then we start to show him that we are not involved in the process and we are opposed to what they do. "

– Saturday 16 January, Autonomous Federation of Teachers organized a demonstration in Montreal for a reinvestment in education. Teacher-e-s and parents braved the snow and cold to show their dissatisfaction with the deterioration of their working conditions and learning conditions for students. The 34 000 union members have still not reached agreement with the government.

– Monday 18 January, workers and early childhood centers workers mobilized across Quebec to make human chains around their workplaces. The government plans clippings 120 million in 2016 and 2017. In 2015, the cuts amounted to 74 million and 2014, at 50 millions of dollars.

– Le World Economic Forum (WEF) expects the fourth industrial revolution will bring in five years loss 5 million jobs 15 so-called "developed" and "emerging". Caused especially by the automation, scanning and 3D printing, planning these cuts goes against job creation promises of many governments to address unemployment.

– Le syndicat des cols bleus ira en appel suite à la suspension de 2000 of its members in Montreal. Since the Labour Relations Commission (CRT) considers that there is no evidence of bad faith of the City, she will not have to search whether or not the suspensions are injurious to the population. These suspensions were imposed following a general meeting at which blue collar workers participated during work hours.

– In Tunisia, almost five years to the day after the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, un marchand ambulant dont les marchandises avaient été confisquées par les autorités et qui par la suite s’était immolé par le feu, a young unemployed, Ridha Yahyaoui, was electrocuted on 17 janvier en réponse au retrait d’une liste d’embauche de la fonction publique. Le taux de chômage chez les jeunes Tunisiens est actuellement de 30%. In both cases, the suicides of victims of a political and economic system often portrayed as authoritarian and corrupt, have caused widespread demonstrations and riots throughout the country. There would have been hundreds of injuries and one death among the demonstrators after the death of Ridha Yahyaoui. In 2011, les émeutes ont dépassé les frontières pour devenir le « Printemps arabe ».

– After one of the biggest labor disputes, that is to say three years, workers and garage workers Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean will officially sign, Monday 25 January, a new collective agreement 6 years providing for wage increase 17,2% as well as alternation between weeks 40 heures sur cinq jours et de 35 hours over four days.