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COVID-19 UPDATE: March 24, 2020

March 24, 2020

Below is the latest information from the provincial government on COVID-19. Up-to-date information on the coronavirus, including symptoms and how to stop transmission is available at: https://cupe.ca/coronavirus.

If you have any concerns about your job or the coronavirus please do not hesitate to contact your union. This is a very stressful time for many of us, especially those providing essential services, and we appreciate your efforts to keep the rest of us safe. Please take care of yourselves and each other.

Health Coalitions’ Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Public Health Care

March 24, 2020March 24, 2020

Health Coalitions’ Joint Statement on COVID-19 and Public Health Care

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the extent to which our individual health is dependent on the health of everyone in our community. Public healthcare is our best defence against this crisis and others like it. However, our ability to endure crises and care for each other has been eroded through decades of austerity budgets, privatization and inadequate planning. Even during “normal times,” the health care system is at capacity.

While health care workers and communities are struggling to support each other, corporate interests are trying to profit. This must be resisted. The solution is not privatization. Instead, we should be strengthening universal health care and our collective ability to care for one another.

CUPE 108 UPDATE RE COVID-19

March 23, 2020March 23, 2020

Yesterday your supervisor should have called you with some new instructions about your work week. Many of us in Parks & ROC have significant changes in our schedules. These changes were made so that we adhere to the new, updated requirements of the province and HRM and to help ensure your safety. This will be our new normal, for the next 4 weeks or so. Be aware that things are very fluid and some changes may occur. I’ll keep you updated as quickly as possible.

If you do not show up for your new scheduled shifts because you are sick or whatever, you will have to take vacation/sick/toil etc. REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE SICK DO NOT COME TO WORK.