Fédération autonome de l'enseignement

What Fédération autonome de l'enseignement does

The Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE) is a Quebec-based, autonomous teachers' union federation founded in 2004 and headquartered in Montreal. It represents tens of thousands of enseignantes et enseignants across Quebec's public school system through affiliated local unions, operating as a member-funded nonprofit rather than a commercial enterprise. Its core functional role is collective bargaining representation with the Quebec government — most recently culminating in the Entente nationale 2023-2028 signed in June 2024 — alongside legal advocacy, professional development resources, and member services including insurance, retirement planning, parental rights guidance, and a description of the teaching workload ("La tâche enseignante").

FAE's product surface is web-based rather than software-based: an official website (lafae.qc.ca) hosting the Actualités news portal, an Entente nationale et ententes locales hub with downloadable PDF collective agreements, the Poste-à-poste platform for inter-school-center position exchanges, a Mediathèque containing 617 press releases, 225 documents, and 144 videos, and topical member-service portals for insurance, retirement, parental rights, and teaching workload. Distribution of services is direct-to-member through affiliated local unions, with no commercial distribution channels.

Revenue mechanics are entirely dues-driven from affiliated teacher unions; no government subsidy, no commercial revenue, and no fundraising product are documented in the source data. The federation maintains a lean staff of 34 employees to support tens of thousands of represented teachers. Strategically, FAE has expanded its advocacy scope beyond traditional labor relations into legislative and judicial challenges (Loi 21 appeal heard at the Supreme Court of Canada in March 2026, Loi 14 contestation filed December 2025), diversity and inclusion research in schools, school violence prevention, and public education funding defense, exemplified by the April 2026 launch of the "Réparons l'école publique" platform.

Name

Fédération autonome de l'enseignement

Legal name

Fédération autonome de l'enseignement

Website

https://lafae.qc.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE) is a Quebec-based autonomous teachers' union federation founded in 2004, representing tens of thousands of public school teachers through collective bargaining, legal advocacy, and member services including insurance, retirement, and parental rights support.

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B2C

Offering type

Services

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Core offering

The Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE) is an autonomous teachers' union federation that represents tens of thousands of Quebec teachers through affiliated local unions. Its core offerings include collective bargaining representation (most recently the Entente nationale 2023-2028), legal advocacy on teacher rights and education policy, and member services covering insurance, retirement planning, parental rights, and teaching workload information. The federation also operates the Poste-à-poste online platform that enables teachers to exchange positions across Centres de services scolaires.

Product overview

Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE) is a Quebec teachers' union federation that operates a website-based member services platform rather than a traditional software product. The primary offerings include: the Entente nationale et ententes locales (collective agreements accessible via PDF), Poste-à-poste (an online position exchange system), and a news portal with a media library containing press releases, documents, and videos. Additional member services cover insurance, retirement, parental rights, and teaching task information. These are informational and administrative services for teachers, not commercial software products.

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Products and services

• Entente nationale et ententes locales Provides Quebec teachers with access to the negotiated national collective agreement (Entente nationale 2023-2028) and corresponding local agreements, available as downloadable PDF resources that govern their working conditions, salaries, and benefits.
• Poste-à-poste

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Technology focussed No

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Regional players

• Alberta Teachers' Association (ATA): Provincial professional association for Alberta teachers with collective bargaining and member services. Comparable institutional role to FAE within Alberta's distinct education governance and labor law landscape.
• Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO): Provincial federation representing Ontario elementary teachers. Operates with comparable bargaining, advocacy, and member-service functions to FAE, providing a benchmark for service delivery in a different legal/political environment.
• British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF): BC's provincial teachers' union with comprehensive member services, collective bargaining, and policy advocacy. Similar scale and remit to FAE but operating under BC's distinct labor and education policy framework.
• Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF): Provincial teachers' federation representing Ontario secondary teachers. Comparable in mandate (collective bargaining, member services, advocacy) but operating in a different provincial jurisdiction under distinct labor laws.

Broad incumbents

• Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF/FCE): National federation of provincial and territorial teachers' organizations. Engages in federal-level education advocacy, paralleling FAE's provincial advocacy role but at the national scale.
• Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ): Largest labor confederation in Quebec, parent body of FSE-CSQ. Operates in education, health, and public services, representing the dominant counter-position to FAE's autonomous model in Quebec labor relations.

Direct peers

• Fédération des syndicats de l'enseignement (FSE-CSQ): The other major Quebec teachers' union federation, affiliated with the CSQ. Represents a different segment of Quebec teachers under a parallel collective agreement, directly competing with FAE for member loyalty and bargaining influence.
• Fédération nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (FNEEQ-CSN): CSN-affiliated federation representing CEGEP and private-sector teachers in Quebec. Operates a parallel collective-bargaining model for post-secondary educators, comparable in structure and function to FAE.
• Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers (QPAT): Autonomous Quebec teachers' association focused on English-language school systems, sharing the autonomous-federation positioning with FAE and representing a parallel teacher constituency in Quebec.
• Association provinciale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (APEQ): An autonomous Quebec teachers' association representing school professionals, overlapping with FAE's membership base and sharing the autonomous-federation model outside the CSQ/FTQ confederations.

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