Camille Marcoux

Camille Marcoux travaille dans la fonction publique du gouvernement du Québec. Elle s’organise avec les militant•es de la Grande démission qui tentent de proposer des stratégies de résistances dans leurs différents milieux de travail en dépassant les divisions faites par leurs patrons et syndicats. Elle est membre du collectif de la revue Ouvrage.

A Wage for Users: Toward a True Common Front

2:15 PM

The professionalization of certain forms of reproductive labor, through the establishment of public social services and their subsequent gradual dismantling, has created a rift between users of those services and the workers who provide them. The degraded state of services and the acts of resistance by workers (strikes, work slowdowns) harm users to the extent that they sometimes lash out, verbally and even physically, at service providers. By recognizing that social services effectively put users (patients, informal caregivers, parents of students, etc.) to work, the demand for a wage for service users opens the door to a potential class reunification against those truly responsible for the miserable conditions endured by both groups.