{"id":51116,"date":"2025-08-07T03:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51116\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T03:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T03:45:23","slug":"mcgill-faculty-groups-file-constitutional-challenge-of-quebec-labour-bill-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51116\/","title":{"rendered":"McGill faculty groups file constitutional challenge of Quebec labour bill &#8211; Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Staff<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted August 5, 2025 3:04 pm<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tUpdated August 5, 2025 4:45 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Four faculty groups at McGill University have launched a constitutional challenge of a\u00a0Quebec\u00a0bill that allows the provincial labour minister to terminate strikes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The associations, which represent 500 academics, say the bill restricts the constitutional right to strike.<\/p>\n<p>They are asking\u00a0Quebec\u00a0Superior Court to declare the bill unconstitutional and invalid, calling it a \u201cfrontal attack\u201d on workers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation was adopted in May and will come into force in November.<\/p>\n<p>It expands the types of services that must be maintained in the event of a strike or lockout.<\/p>\n<p>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>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11318938\/greg-abbott-donald-trump-fleeing-democrats-texas-vote\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754538323_256_GettyImages-2224699506.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTexas governor orders arrest of \u2018delinquent\u2019 Democrats who fled to block vote\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11320440\/air-canada-flight-attendants-vote-strike-timeline\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754538323_105_Air-Canada-August-6.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAir Canada flight attendants have voted to strike. What comes next?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The faculty groups say the bill gives employers an incentive to delay negotiations in the hope the government will intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The office of Labour Minister Jean Boulet declined to comment on the matter in light of the legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 5, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 5, 2025 3:04 pm Updated August 5, 2025 4:45 pm 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,549,295,16644,714,66],"class_list":["post-51116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-mcgill-university","tag-politics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51116","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=51116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}