Our history

History

It was in October 1975, following the request of the Service Employees’ Union and of the Quebec Building Service Contractors Association, that the Government of Quebec issued a decree which granted to the cleaning employees of public buildings, union members or not, the working conditions agreed to between the Union and the employers.

In 1976, in accordance with the Law, the Union and employers created the Parity Committee, they nominated a Board of directors and they hired a Director and personnel to which they entrusted the mission of monitoring the application of the Decree that had just been granted to them by the Minister of Labour.

In 1975, the Decree covered a more restricted territory than today. It was in 1981 that the areas of St. Hyacinthe and Granby were added, and in 1991, the territory of the Outaouais was added.