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Professional, college and university students in several regions are calling for strike actions and protests for the salarization of all internships in the run-up to International Interns' Day on November 10, 2023. These pressure tactics, which will be deployed in several locations across the so-called province, aim to underline the student movement's exasperation with this classist, patriarchal and racist inequality.<\/span><\/p>\nThis call to action is the result of a mobilization committee meeting held on September 12, bringing together students from the Montreal metropolitan region, the Capitale-Nationale, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Outaouais, Estrie and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. The committee plans to hold several demonstrations in various regions on November 10 at 3 pm. The starting points for the various demonstrations will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\nUnpaid internships and the racial and gendered division of labor<\/b><\/h2>\n
In so-called Quebec, 9 of the 20 professions with the most women, some of which require a college or university diploma, require unpaid internships during training. This proportion is 3 among the 20 professions with the most men.<\/span><\/p>\nIn fact, the professions most heavily occupied by women and associated with non-salaried internships are essentially reproductive jobs such as teaching, nursing and social work. These are also jobs where racialized women are over-represented, but also sectors of activity where we find the highest proportions of first-generation academics.<\/span>In this sense, the non-remuneration of internships produces a precariousness that proportionally targets women<\/span>, racialized people and first-generation academics.<\/span><\/p>\nMoreover, the exclusion of interns performing reproductive work from the wage relationship contributes to the invisibilization of their work under capitalism and patriarchy. There is a mystification of their activity as not being work, i.e. interns' work is not presented as work with a value, but as an educational service rendered to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOn the one hand, this does not explain why internships associated with male professions are paid, while those associated with female professions are not. On the other hand, the majority of interns provide a work service, sometimes even if they are on so-called \"observation\" internships. Finally, studying is also working: making oneself competent to carry out certain tasks is also a service to society, the state and capital, as evidenced by the exasperation of employers faced with shortages of skilled labor.<\/span><\/p>\nDiscrimination in the workplace<\/b><\/h2>\n
The mobilization committee also denounces the way in which internship conditions are conducive to the reproduction of discriminatory mechanisms, particularly with regard to people who are racialized, disabled or belong to a sexual minority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe internship is quite an ordeal. It's common for teachers and program directors to set high standards in terms of time and energy for trainees, on the pretext that \"the related professions demand nothing less than the best of the best\".<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAnd yet, many people report being misgendered, deadnamed, or receiving racist, capacitist or sexist comments about their internship environment. However, many find themselves obliged to tolerate such discrimination in the name of successful completion of their studies.<\/span><\/p>\nSimilarly, internships require interns to contribute all their mental, physical and material faculties over a long period of time, between 45 and 600 hours per session, which can represent 40 hours per week. It also requires sustained performance that does not compromise the productivity level of the employees. \"It's all about keeping things moving!\" After all, interns do serve as a low-cost workforce for private enterprise, and as an alternative solution for the state in a context of cuts to public services. So, having a paid job at the same time to pay the rent, food, transport, etc., and sometimes taking care of the children, makes the number of hours worked per week explode.<\/span><\/p>\nMoreover, unpaid internships often lead to a drop in employment income, given the reduced number of hours worked outside the academic career.<\/span>As a result, many unpaid interns are forced to rely financially on family and friends, dip into their savings, go into debt or abandon their program. The most precarious people, who have the most recourse to debt, are going to pay more for their education because of the high interest rates imposed on them after their studies.<\/span><\/p>\nReconciling a family, a salaried job, a drop in income and the demands of an internship can be a real challenge, which can turn into a nightmare when interns also experience transphobic, racist or sexist acts.<\/span><\/p>\nStudent strike<\/b><\/h2>\n
The people gathered at the committee call on student associations to adopt strike mandates for November 10, 2023. This strike is part of an escalation of pressure tactics for the salarization of internships initiated as early as 2015 by psychology internship students, then by CUTE from 2016 and, more recently, by the five-week strike of the Association des \u00e9tudiantes et des \u00e9tudiants de la Facult\u00e9 des sciences de l'\u00e9ducation de l'UQAM (ADEESE) in fall 2022 and the one-week strike of the Association g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e9tudiante du campus de Rimouski de l'UQAR (AGECAR) and the Association g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des \u00e9tudiantes et des \u00e9tudiants du C\u00e9gep de Rimouski (AGECR) in winter 2023.<\/span><\/p>\nIn the absence of internships, various student associations intend to continue intensifying their pressure tactics over the coming year, and do not rule out the possibility of an unlimited general strike.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Signatories to the call for demonstrations and strikes<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nCoalition de r\u00e9sistance pour l\u2019unit\u00e9 \u00e9tudiante syndicale (CRUES)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation des \u00e9tudiantes et des \u00e9tudiants de la Facult\u00e9 des sciences de l\u2019\u00e9ducation de l\u2019UQAM (ADEESE-UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation \u00c9tudiante du Module de Science Politique de l\u2019UQAM (AEMSP-UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des \u00e9tudiants en sciences de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrook (AGES)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation facultaire \u00e9tudiante de science politique et droit de l\u2019UQAM (AFESPED)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e9tudiante du campus de Rimouski de l’UQAR (AGECAR)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation G\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00c9tudiante du C\u00e9gep du Vieux Montr\u00e9al (AGECVM)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des \u00e9tudiants du C\u00e9gep de Rimouski (AGECR)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation g\u00e9n\u00e9rale \u00e9tudiante du premier cycle en psychologie de l\u2019UQAM (AGEPSY-1)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSoci\u00e9t\u00e9 G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des \u00c9tudiants et \u00c9tudiantes du Coll\u00e8ge de Maisonneuve (SOG\u00c9\u00c9COM)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation des \u00c9tudiant(e)s de l\u2019\u00c9cole des Affaires Publiques et Communautaires de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Concordia (A\u00c9\u00c9APC\/SCPASA)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation facultaire \u00e9tudiante des sciences humaines de l’UQAM (AFESH-UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation des \u00e9tudiant-es en sciences sociales de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval (A\u00c9SS-UL)<\/span><\/p>\nGeography Undergrad Student Society of Concordia (GUSS)<\/p>\n
Association \u00e9tudiante du C\u00e9gep de Sherbrooke (A\u00c9CS)<\/span><\/p>\nAssociation facultaire \u00e9tudiante des arts de l\u2019UQAM (AF\u00c9A-UQAM)<\/span><\/p>\nSyndicat des \u00c9tudiant\u00b7e\u00b7s Employ\u00e9\u00b7e\u00b7s de l’UQAM (SETUE)<\/p>\n
Association des \u00e9tudiant-es en sciences sociales de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval (A\u00c9SS-UL)<\/p>\n
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\n\n- Les donn\u00e9es quant au nombre de personne par professions, quant \u00e0 la proportion d\u2019homme\/femme et quant aux dipl\u00f4mes associ\u00e9s ont \u00e9t\u00e9 extraites de \u00ab Explorer des m\u00e9tiers et des professions \u00bb, 28 juin 2023, en ligne, <https:\/\/www.quebec.ca\/emploi\/informer-metier-profession\/explorer-metiers-professions>. Puis, les caract\u00e9ristiques des stages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 v\u00e9rifi\u00e9es sur les divers sites web des \u00e9tablissements coll\u00e9giaux ou universitaires. Suivre le lien suivant pour voir les donn\u00e9es collect\u00e9es : <https:\/\/bit.ly\/3OO5ddT>.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Voir Milan et Gagnon, \u00ab\u00a0Professions des femmes sud-asiatiques, chinoises et noires\u00a0\u00bb, 23.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Voir Sylvie Bonin. \u00ab\u00a0Les \u00e9tudiants de premi\u00e8re g\u00e9n\u00e9ration universitaire\u202f: Toujours d\u2019actualit\u00e9\u202f!\u00a0\u00bb, Enqu\u00eate ICOPE (Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, janvier 2019), 7. https:\/\/www.uquebec.ca\/dri\/publications\/rapports_de_recherche\/etudiants_premiere_gen_univ_2016.pdf.<\/span><\/li>\n
- Sandrine Belley, Alice Brassard, et Ariane Lanct\u00f4t. \u00ab\u00a0La cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me a tourn\u00e9\u202f: Capacitisme, handicap et sant\u00e9 mentale\u00a0\u00bb, dans <\/span>Gr\u00e8ve des stages, gr\u00e8ve des femmes\u202f: Anthologie d\u2019une lutte f\u00e9ministe pour un salaire \u00e9tudiant (2016-2019)<\/span><\/i>, dir. Annabelle Berthiaume et al. (Montr\u00e9al\u00a0: Les \u00c9ditions du Remue-m\u00e9nage, 2021).<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
- \u00a0<\/span>DERU et <\/span>DGAUISE<\/span>, \u00ab\u00a0Stages \u00e9tudiants\u202f: Programmes d\u2019\u00e9tudes professionnelles, techniques et universitaires\u202f: Portrait, enjeux et pistes de solutions\u00a0\u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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