Celebrating Black History Month

CUPE Nova Scotia is proud to observe Black History Month by celebrating Black culture and heritage, honouring Black leaders’ accomplishments and contributions to our society, and committing to taking anti-racist action every day. We currently have two spots running that will run all month on radio and streaming platforms across the province. If you miss them, listen here: Radio Transcript: As we enter the Second United Nations International Decade for People of African Descent, CUPE Nova Scotia would like to invite you to join us in celebrating African Heritage Month and the long-standing legacy of African Nova Scotians. For more than 200 years, African Nova Scotians across this province have shaped our history, our culture, and our community. We want to take this opportunity to recognize that legacy, both past and present, and inspire future generations. This has been a message from CUPE Nova Scotia. Streaming Transcript: This African Heritage … Read more…

African Heritage Month Movie Night

CUPE Nova Scotia’s Human Rights Committee proudly presents “Speak It From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia”, a 1992 documentary from award winning Nova Scotian filmmaker Sylvia Hamilton that focuses on a group of Black Nova Scotian students in a predominantly white high school who face daily reminders of racism. During the online event we will screen the movie, then facilitate a discussion of the continued presence of racism in our schools and societies and what, if anything, has changed in the 33 years since the film was created. To register for this event, click here or on the link in the PDF document attached below.

We’ll bargain together, and we’ll win together: EECD agrees to a common table for provincial proposals

Hello fellow school support staff, coworkers, friends, we have exciting news! After refusing to meet us at a common table for almost a year, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development has agreed to meet the presidents of all CUPE eight locals representing school support staff at one common table to negotiate provincial proposals. Thanks to the support and effort of all of our members, we have received a written commitment (via email) today to meet at a common table within ten days. This is a victory—this is your victory! As you know, the EECD had previously given the seven RCEs and CSAP a specific mandate that prevented any movement on wages at our local bargaining tables. They insisted we negotiate common items at local tables and then prevented employer representatives from actually negotiating. They wasted our time. The only reason we have gone from a flat-out refusal to … Read more…