CUPE Nova Scotia

P3 highways greater cost to public safety says CUPE

July 24, 2018July 19, 2018

The union representing highway workers in Nova Scotia has questions about the long-term cost of a new P3 highway, especially if maintenance and snow removal are contracted out to private operators.

“Can a private, for-profit company clear and maintain highways for less than our own Department of Transportation?” asks Steve Joy, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1867. “The province already has the equipment and highly skilled employees capable of providing this work. There is no need to give taxpayers’ money away to private corporations.”

2018 All Committees Conference

July 25, 2018July 19, 2018

October 18 to October 21, 2018
Truro, NS

Dear Sisters, Brothers and Friends!

Where is our beautiful world? What should it look, how should it sound, how can we find it? Let’s figure out how to get there at our CUPE Nova Scotia All Committees Conference where we will collectively, grapple with these questions and more.

Six courses are listed on this site and to begin this learning journey we’d like you to identify your top four choices. Click here to register.

Member Update: Health Care Bargaining Update – July 12, 2018

July 25, 2018July 12, 2018

Your Health Care Bargaining Committee has spent the past several weeks preparing for a mediation-arbitration hearing set for the last week of July with mediator/arbitrator William Kaplan.

The Committee has worked closely over the last eight weeks with lawyers at Pink Larkin to continue to narrow the issues and prepare our case. That work has included conducting more bargaining with the Employers at the NSHA and the IWK in order to resolve as many outstanding issues as possible in advance of the hearing.