the ZISS de la Côte-Nord and the Alliance of Professional and Technical Personnel in Health and Social Services (APTS) are meeting for the third time Monday before an independent arbitrator to try to resolve a dispute over information that would have been leaked to a journalist of the Have to from employees.

the ZISS and the union have complained to each other.

Corresponding ZISSFacts related to the Richelieu Pavilion reported in a newspaper article the Have to Released March 2021, it would be confidential, flawed and damaging to relationships with various indigenous communities.

For its part, theAPTs denounces the behavior of the employer, which she considers abusive and would violate the freedom of expression of employees.

According to the media release, the employer allegedly consulted the employees’ emails to identify the sources of the Have toso the union.

Testimonial from the manager of the Pavillon Richelieu

A manager of the Richelieu Pavilion, Marie-Josée Dufour, continued her testimony on Monday afternoon.

Interviewed by the attorney representing themAPTsMarie-Josée Dufour claimed before the referee that on March 23, 2021 she had sent an email to the Department of Information Resources of the ZISS to check emails allegedly sent between six employees of the ZISS and the journalist Have to. She would also have asked for access to the six employees’ mailboxes.

Marie-Josée Dufour would have had access to the six mailboxes before the article was published in the Have to.

Ms Dufour informed the referee that it was over following an interview with the journalist devoir that she had requested access to the e-mail inboxes because confidential information was contained in the journalist’s questions.

” There were elements that were confidential to us. That’s when we decided to see who leaked our confidential information. »

The manager explained that no names of users of the Pavillon Richelieu were given in the interview, but that the elements discussed by the journalist enabled her to guess which users were involved.

During the hearings before the independent arbitrator, the union spoke out against the employer having the employees testify. L’APTs wants to protect journalistic sources.

The hearing before the independent arbitrator, lawyer Jean-Yves Brière, lasts until Monday at 5:30 p.m.

Mr. Brière will make his decision in the coming months.

At the same time, the Pavillon Richelieu workers’ union, theAPTs, calls for an independent investigation on the climate and labor relations at the center following the suspension of six educators last year.

In collaboration with Camille the cross