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Yesterday, CSN president Claudette Carbonneau served notice that she plans to turn up the volume.Carbonneau called for province-wide study sessions in a "day of disruption" Dec. 11, when CSN members will lay down their tools, bedpans and keyboards in a new round of protest.
"Of course, it will have a disruptive impact," she said.
"And the employers will call their friends in the government and tell them the music has changed," Carbonneau predicted.
As she spoke, a classic tune by the late Quebec rocker Gerry Boulet, Le roi d'la marchette, pounded out over the sound system.
Carbonneau invited the QLF and other Quebec unions to join with the CSN in the Dec. 11 work stoppage.
"We have a government that is attacking everyone, that is going full-speed ahead to pass laws that are anti-union, anti-social, anti-compassion," she added.
"We're not going to let them get away with it - and they are doing it, essentially, with the support of the bosses."