CUPE Nova Scotia

Member Update: Health Care Bargaining Update – July 12, 2018

July 25, 2018July 12, 2018

Your Health Care Bargaining Committee has spent the past several weeks preparing for a mediation-arbitration hearing set for the last week of July with mediator/arbitrator William Kaplan.

The Committee has worked closely over the last eight weeks with lawyers at Pink Larkin to continue to narrow the issues and prepare our case. That work has included conducting more bargaining with the Employers at the NSHA and the IWK in order to resolve as many outstanding issues as possible in advance of the hearing.

Opinion: Restorative justice workers want equal pay

July 25, 2018July 11, 2018

The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the Chronicle Herald on July 10, 2018.

Nova Scotians should be proud of our status as a trailblazer in the field of restorative justice. In November 2016, we added adult restorative justice to the legislative framework, to media fanfare across the country. We are the only province where anyone ages 12 and up can, under the correct circumstances, be diverted out of the criminal justice system into a healing restorative justice process.

What we should be less proud of is that zero extra dollars and zero extra staff have been added to restorative justice since the addition of adults to the program. At the agency I work, caseload has jumped almost 150 per cent.

We remember Rocky…

February 9, 2021July 6, 2018

We were thrilled to see coverage in this week’s The Coast on Rocky Jones and his wife, Joan, who fought side by side for civil rights in Nova Scotia.

For CUPE, Rocky Jones embodied all that we aspire to be as activists and as a movement. Striving for equality, speaking out against injustice, resisting those who might try to undermine or sideline the fight for human rights protections, and doing so ceaselessly — is how we remember Mr. Jones.