Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante gets backing of firefighters' association in re-election bid
Incumbent Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante received support from the city’s firefighters Monday, with the Association des pompiers saying they’ll back her re-election bid.
"This is exceptional, this is the first time this has happened," a source with the union told CTV News Montreal on Monday afternoon.
Projet Montreal will hold a news conference at a fire hall in Chinatown Tuesday afternoon as firefighters lend support to Plante and her party.
The decision is related to a longstanding beef: Back in 2014, the Coderre administration passed Bill 15, which imposed a 50/50 split of municipal pension plans..
Bill 15 was pushed by mayors and passed by the Quebec Liberal government. It shared 50-50 split pension plan deficits and non-indexation of pensions, particularly because it unilaterally changed previously negotiated agreements between employers and unions.
It left a bad taste in the mouths of several unions, including the firefighters. Coderre renegotiated with the union in 2017 as it was facing a legal battle.
- With files from CTV News Montreal's Andrew Brennan
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