2016 CUPE Nova Scotia All Committees Conference

Save the Date! All Committees Conference

October 18 – 21, 2018. Best Western Glengarry, Truro. Watch for the registration with course selection coming to your mailbox in June. Download a copy of this CUPE Nova Scotia All Committees notice for your local. Photos from the 2016 CUPE Nova Scotia All Committees Conference on Flickr

Member update on health care bargaining

Member Update: Health Care Bargaining – May 18, 2018

Councils of Health Care Unions ratify agreement with NSHA and IWK.  After more than 18 months of negotiations, over 40 bargaining dates, multiple pieces of Liberal anti-labour legislation and countless protests, members of the Health Care Councils of Unions have voted 92% to ratify an agreement put forward by the Province. This agreement will move negotiations between the employer and all four bargaining groups (Health Care, Administrative Professionals, Support Services and Nursing) into mediated-arbitration. What this means for negotiations Each of the four bargaining units will continue to bargain with their employers (the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK). However, with this agreement any issues that cannot be resolved at the table will go to a mediator-arbitrator for an independent and final award. We anticipate that the Health Care bargaining unit will enter into arbitration near the end of July 2018. It is our hope that the employer and … Read more…

Newsletter – May 2018

Newsletter - May 2018Read the CUPE Nova Scotia Newsletter online or download and print copies for your local.

In this issue:

  • A message from Nan McFadgen
  • CUPE Nova Scotia Division Convention
  • CUPE NS Awards Committee Announcement
  • CUPE 4765 and 3688 Early Childhood Educators
  • Fundraiser for Lyle Mailman
  • Upcoming Education Workshops
  • Heat Stress
  • Accident and Occupational Disease Investigations

Plus, find out who will be the special guest at our Division Convention!

Download the May 2018 newsletter