Translating the printemps érable
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For more useful English-language sources on the conflict, see:
CUTV - broadcasting live from the protests nightly
Rouge Squad - Tactical Translation Team
Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage
CSN Ad Campaign Against Bill 78
Original French Video: http://www.csn.qc.ca/web/csn/
Quebec Deserves Better
Collusion
Shale gas
Plan Nord
Tuition fees
Occult financing
Bad management
It took the Charest government over two years to say yes to an inquiry commission on the management and the granting of public contracts in the construction industry, but under 24 hours to adopt a special law that infringes upon civil liberties and that threatens our democracy.
Quebec deserves better.
A message from the CSN [Confederation of National Unions]
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Translated from the original French by Translating the printemps érable.
*Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media’s extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English. These are amateur translations; we have done our best to translate these pieces fairly and coherently, but the final texts may still leave something to be desired. If you find any important errors in any of these texts, we would be very grateful if you would share them with us at translatingtheprintempsderable@gmail.com. Please read and distribute these texts in the spirit in which they were intended; that of solidarity and the sharing of information.
La Presse canadienne June 27, 2012
by Alexandre Robillard
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/353390/rentree-scolaire-courchesne-juge-les-menaces-des-syndicats-inacceptables
Québec – The Minister of Education, Michelle Courchesne, calls unacceptable the pressure tactics threatened by CEGEP (college) professors, who are currently negotiating the terms of the special resumption of classes set for mid-August.
Mrs. Courchesne stated today in a press conference that intensive negotiations are under way with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux [CSN - trade union federation].
In addition to limiting demonstrations, the special law passed by the government, Bill 78, mandates a resumption of classes August 17 to complete the winter semester that was interrupted by the student conflict.
The main stumbling block for teachers is the additional staff required to teach the college classes that were disrupted when students opposed to the tuition fee increase went on strike.
Staff post June 1, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ftq.qc.ca/modules/nouvelles/nouvelle.php?id=2220&langue=fr
The heads of the FTQ, the CSN and the CSQ (Quebec’s three largest labour unions) are criticizing the government for its irresponsible, even disruptive, behaviour. “The government’s decision to break off negotiations, when all of Quebec is hoping for a solution to the crisis, is simply absurd. Any experienced negotiator would understand, based on the status of the talks revealed yesterday by the involved parties, that negotiations needn’t have broken down. With a little good will, it is still possible to come to an agreement to end the crisis and avoid renewed turmoil in mid-August,” stated the unions’ spokesperson.
