CUPE Nova Scotia Women’s Committee calls on province for prevention strategies and services to combat femicide

The CUPE Nova Scotia Women’s Committee is encouraging members, co-workers, friends and families to take action to stop femicide and to attend a vigil in their community to observe the National Day of Remembrance and Action to End Violence Against Women on December 6th (see list of events below). This year, the committee would like to bring attention to the report #CallItFemicide: Understanding gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada 2018. Published by the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA), this study concluded that “a firm political commitment was required before any of the practical or technical steps could be progressed forward”. Using the data and evidence found within the study, the CFOJA is calling for “the development of prevention strategies and services to combat femicide and other forms of violence against women”. The report is available at https://femicideincanada.ca/callitfemicide.pdf. “The CUPE Nova Scotia Women’s Committee is asking the … Read more…

Questionnaire for affiliated CUPE Nova Scotia Presidents

All CUPE NS affiliated Presidents are strongly encouraged to participate in this brief questionnaire created by our Pension Committee. Please forward your responses to cupenspension20192021@gmail.com Thank you in advance!

Traditional funding and operation for Cape Breton hospitals in the public’s best interest: CUPE Nova Scotia

“Reversing the decision to construct two new health centres in Cape Breton through public-private partnerships (P3s) was the right one,” says CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen. “The traditional model that includes public funding, maintenance and operations is in the best interest of Nova Scotians.” At a panel discussion held in Halifax on Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Deputy Minister for Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Paul Lafleche announced that, “We initially thought, we mused — never a good thing to do in the media — we mused about doing P3s for some of the Cape Breton expansion or build and after getting down to look at the details of those projects, the scale of them, we asked ourselves a lot of questions … we then decided we would not do P3s in Cape Breton.” “Hopefully, the millions of dollars saved by this decision will be put into front line services,” adds … Read more…