{"id":47756,"date":"2025-08-05T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47756\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:56:08","slug":"mcgill-faculty-groups-file-constitutional-challenge-of-quebec-labour-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/47756\/","title":{"rendered":"McGill faculty groups file constitutional challenge of Quebec labour bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/DFO24IXVWZAD5FKSMMGPLNQLDA.jpg?auth=77503cdf01311ed0de4c231c23a28deac57b4a7323700c9b37f255e8bc7c6259&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Four faculty groups at McGill University in Montreal call the legislation a &#8216;frontal attack&#8217; on workers\u2019 rights.Ryan Remiorz\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Four faculty groups at McGill University have launched a constitutional challenge of a Quebec bill that allows the provincial labour minister to terminate strikes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The associations, which represent 500 academics, say the bill restricts the constitutional right to strike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">They are asking Quebec Superior Court to declare the bill unconstitutional and invalid, calling it a \u201cfrontal attack\u201d on workers\u2019 rights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-mcgill-university-cuts-60-positions-in-response-to-quebec-tuition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McGill University cuts 60 positions in response to Quebec tuition policies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The legislation was adopted in May and will come into force in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">It expands the types of services that must be maintained in the event of a strike or lockout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">It also gives the labour minister discretion to end a work stoppage if it is deemed to be causing serious or irreparable harm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The faculty groups say the bill gives employers an incentive to delay negotiations in the hope the government will intervene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Four faculty groups at McGill University in Montreal call the legislation a &#8216;frontal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,66,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-47756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-science","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}