2023 International Women’s Day Celebration

On Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 CUPE Nova Scotia will be holding a celebration of International Women’s Day! We will first gather at the CUPE Atlantic Regional Office (271 Brownlow Avenue in Dartmouth) at 6:00pm and then march to the Best Western at 15 Spectacle Lake Drive. We are very pleased to welcome Claudia Chender (leader of the Nova Scotia NDP) as our guest speaker for this event. Light refreshments will also be served. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by February 28th with CUPE Nova Scotia Vice-President Dianne Frittenburg by email at dfritt@icloud.com.

CUPE Women’s Conference

CUPE Women: Leading, Organizing, Resisting will take place March 12-15, 2023 in Vancouver. The conference will open with an evening plenary at 5:30 p.m. on March 12 and close at noon on March 15. A meet and mingle with light refreshments will take place before the conference opens on Sunday from 4:00-5:30 pm. Join CUPE women from across the country for four days of connecting, supporting, and building women’s power in the union, in the workplace, and in our communities. Members will explore how to fight for gender equity and expand women’s leadership through bargaining, political action, and member mobilization. The conference will feature exciting speakers, panels, discussions, and skills-building workshops. Don’t miss this chance to voice your experiences and share your thoughts on how to make our union stronger, safer, and more welcoming for all! Free youth camp and child care will be provided. At-home child care subsidies are also available. Locals in financial need can access … Read more…

CUPE Nova Scotia celebrates Black History Month

In celebration of Black History Month, CUPE Nova Scotia and CUPE Atlantic Region will proudly fly this beautiful African Nova Scotian flag over the CUPE Atlantic Regional Office. The flag was designed by Wendie Wilson, who is an African Nova Scotian artist, educator, author and community activist. The flag includes the colours red for blood and sacrifice, gold for cultural richness, green for fertility and growth, and black for the people. The design in the middle is an adaptation of an Andinkra symbol known as Sankofa, an ancient symbol from West Africa. It is associated with a saying which can be translated as: “It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten”. It symbolizes bringing past knowledge to the present. In this version, there is a wave at the bottom, representing the ocean and ancestors’ journey through the “Middle Passage”. The heart on the left with an embedded … Read more…