Respectfully submitted on behalf of CUPE Nova Scotia and the CUPE Long-Term Care Coordinating Committee. Fix residential long-term care workers’ conditions of work, to improve conditions of care CUPE Nova Scotia welcomes the opportunity to share our views and recommendations on improving quality of care in long-term care (LTC) for consideration by the Expert Advisory Panel convened to review this matter. Nova Scotia has an opportunity to become a leader in the delivery of high-quality seniors’ care by addressing a key determinant of care quality – a stable and adequately resourced team of care staff. It is urgent and important that Nova Scotia get residential long-term care right. We have the highest percentage of the population aged 65 and older in Canada. The elderly population will only continue to grow as a share of our population: the first wave of baby boomers born in 1945 turned 73 this year. Nova … Read more…
HALIFAX- After 12 days of bargaining, workers at Halifax Water, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 227, have voted overwhelming in favour of strike action.
CUPE National Representative Karen MacKenzie says there were 13 concessions on the table at the start of bargaining, most of which will negatively affect work-life balance.
The Nova Scotia Council of Nursing Unions (NSNU, NSGEU, CUPE and Unifor) and the employer group have completed collective bargaining and are referring all remaining matters in dispute to Arbitrator William Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan was named as mediator-arbitrator for all Acute Care collective agreements, in an agreement that was ratified by a large majority of workers in May 2018. The 20-member Nursing Council began collective bargaining in early September and meetings with the employers continued until early this week. As a result, the issues that must be resolved by Mr. Kaplan have been narrowed considerably. Written submissions will be made to Mr. Kaplan by the end of this week and we expect him to issue his order, setting the terms of the new Nursing collective agreement, shortly after he reviews the submissions. Once the Nursing Council receives the order, the unions will share a link to the agreement on their … Read more…