De­spite promis­es that they will be re­hired and giv­en one month's salary, CEPEP work­ers staged a protest at the com­pa­ny's head­quar­ters in Ste. Madeleine this morn­ing.

The work­ers and con­trac­tors called on gov­ern­ment to ex­e­cute a speedy au­dit and re­hire them im­me­di­ate­ly be­fore the start of the new school term.

“It’s not fair,” says Crevor­dor Piper, a for­mer CEPEP con­trac­tor. “They just want to pay us a month in lieu, and not pay work­ers, and we have to pay work­ers from that mon­ey. Are they avoid­ing pay­ing NIS?"