As our way to show how proud, appreciative and thankful we are of our members working on the frontline, we will be posting weekly video clips of submitted photos or shots of our members on social media with the hashtag #nsfrontlinefaces, to recognize them for their dedication, devotion & heroism through this global pandemic.
Help us show fellow Nova Scotians the faces of our true heroes – Send us your faces via email @ nanmcf@icloud.com
THANK YOU FRONTLINERS!
On April 28, the National Day of Mourning for Workers Killed or Injured on the Job, we remember all the workers we have lost, and we vow to keep fighting for safe and healthy workplaces for everyone.
Every year in Canada, around 1000 workers lose their lives on the job. Their deaths are preventable and should not happen. And each one is a tragedy.
Last year, CUPE lost 11 members to workplace-related fatalities.
“Our love and solidarity go out to the families, friends, and co-workers of those we have lost,” says CUPE National President Mark Hancock. “A healthy and safe workplace is the right of each and every worker under the sun, and this is why we fight for the living.”
To all of our members in CUPE Nova Scotia,
Long-term care facilities in Nova Scotia currently have COVID-positive residents and staff in ten nursing homes across the province.
Northwood Halifax Campus, the largest long-term care facility east of Montreal, is dealing with an unprecedented virus, one that has taken hold of the facility, its vulnerable residents and its dedicated staff.
We know how hard the staff in Northwood are working to care for residents in a setting that strives to be like a home and not a hospital, and we recognize that this results in a different environment, practices and supplies when compared to the acute care sector.