Nunavik school board reaches deal with education professionals, but not teachers – Nunatsiaq News

May 8, 2025

Talks with teachers continue into Thursday night; strike still expected if no settlement reached

Nunavik’s Kativik Ilisarniliriniq and the union representing the school board’s education professionals have reached an agreement on a new contract.

However, the board and its teachers and support staff — who are represented by a different union, the Association of Employees of Northern Quebec — are still negotiating to reach their own separate collective agreement.

Those talks were continuing Thursday night, union president Larry Imbeault told Nunatsiaq News.

Unless an agreement is reached, a 17-day strike planned by the teachers’ union to begin May 13 is expected to still go ahead.

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