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A health care workers union that represents Quebec’s nurses was back in court on Monday to fight against mandatory overtime.

The Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé (FIQ), which represents 76,000 nurses and other health-care professionals, filed a request that the province’s labour board review a decision it made last April on the issue of overtime.

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The labour board had refused to involve itself in issue of whether mandatory overtime constituted the management of resources.

The FIQ’s fight came to a head with a one-day overtime strike April 8. The same day, the union went before the labour board asking it to order health care managers to stop managing their “professional resources” in a “negligent, mistaken and abusive manner” that was compromising services to the public.

The labour board refused to hear the arguments, saying it was not its role, but rather that of employers and the Quebec Health Ministry to determine what services the public should receive.

Monday’s court filing seeks a review of that decision.