Although not speaking enough, the subject of burnout in the public health sector and social services and in education is known and minimally addressed by the unions of these environments. What is the current situation in the community?

working conditions that degrade

Sadly, the idealized vision that many people in our work is far from coinciding with reality. The findings are rather staggering : low wages, precarious working conditions (unpaid overtime, employment contracts of a few months, lack of insurance, absence of pension plans, etc.), high turnover, increased pressure from institutional network, permanent work overload, competition for funding exhausting ... The situation is not improving in a context where the government savagely cut in the social safety net. This is not to mention that a body can live different internal crises that undermine even benefit the work environment ; conflict with management, harassment, pressure of donors, etc.

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By opening my Facebook today I read a CEO⁽¹⁾ de Dunkin’ Donuts a qualifié de « scandaleux » (« outrageous ») claim the minimum wage 15$ Time campaign currently underway in the USA. This man, it was said, earns himself a little 4 889 $ /h!

Vous me direz qu’il ne faut pas croire tout ce qu’on lit sur Facebook. C’est vrai. Il demeure que, selon les chiffres cités par Jacques B. Gélinas dans son livre La globalisation du monde, publié chez Écosociété in 2000, les hauts cadres des multinationales gagnaient en moyenne 500 fois le salaire de leurs employés !

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The 24 March, to Montreal, at the request of his lordship Coderre, l’Institut Douglas
et le YMCA orchestraient un dénombrement de la population itinérante de la métropole.

Not far from 1000 volunteers and employee-s-s-e mobilized in the streets, dans les centres
de jour, emergency accommodation, etc, to count the number of homeless people. Un genre de sondage des pauvres, quoi. Un projet comme un autre qui coûte cher cependant, malgré les bénévoles. But OK, whatever.

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Six popular education centers, is the popular education workshops Plateau, the popular education Carrefour Pointe Saint-Charles, educational and community center René-Goupil, the Education Committee adults in the Little Burgundy and St. Henri (CEDA), Social Committee and the South Central Community Education Pavilion Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, and two agencies (La Maison St-Charles and La Maison du Partage d'Youville), risk closing their doors at the end of their leases and seeing their funding decrease.
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