Member update on health care bargaining

Member Update: Health Care Bargaining – March 27, 2018

Nova Scotia Labour Board will finalize IWK Essential Services Plan  The Nova Scotia Council of Health Care Unions today requested that the Nova Scotia Labour Board settle the outstanding issues and finalize an Essential Services plan for the IWK. The Labour Board has 30 days to hear submissions from both the Employer and the Council of Unions and reach a conclusion on the remaining issues. At the end of this process the IWK will have an Essential Services plan. The Council of Unions, Health Care Bargaining Unit, has worked hard to reach an Essential Services plan that meets the needs of its members as well as ensures the health and safety of patients. The Council of Unions believes that the remaining issues cannot be resolved through negotiations with the Employer and is using the process provided under the Essential Health and Community Services Act to empower the Labour Board to finalize the … Read more…

Support staff to Churchill: “We’re an integral part of the Nova Scotia education system too”

“CUPE is asking Minister Churchill to meet to discuss the path this government is taking based on the Report on Inclusion released yesterday. CUPE wants to ensure that our members’ needs are met, while continuing to provide the best environment for learning for the students,” says Nan McFadgen, president of CUPE Nova Scotia. “We see that other unions were consulted on these recommendations and changes. What about the 4,000 plus support workers in eight school boards that CUPE represents?” asks McFadgen. “They are the hard-working front-line employees that carry out this inclusion work, and that keep our schools operating in a safe, clean and efficient manner that is conducive to learning.” “We have questions about our individual collective agreements, held with the soon-to-be-dissolved school boards, and now we see changes that will affect our educational assistants, teaching assistants and community outreach workers – that we were not consulted on,” says … Read more…

News Release: Nova Scotia Council of Health Care Unions announce strike vote

The following joint news release was issued by the Nova Scotia Health Care Council of Unions this morning. After more than a year of bargaining, the Nova Scotia Health Care Council of Unions is announcing that it will soon hold Nova Scotia’s first ever province-wide Health Care Bargaining Unit strike vote. The Council of Unions says the employer’s representing the NSHA and IWK have slowed the pace of bargaining significantly over the last two months. The Council of Unions have tabled an entire collective agreement package, while the employers have only tabled individual proposals. The Council of Unions believes that the only way to get the NSHA and IWK to take health care bargaining seriously is to initiate a province-wide strike vote. The Nova Scotia Council of Health Care Unions includes the NSGEU, CUPE, Unifor and NSNU. The Health Care Bargaining Unit represents 6500 health care members. The NSGEU is … Read more…