CUPE Nova Scotia’s 2023 Award, Scholarship & Bursary Applications

CUPE Nova Scotia is pleased to circulate the applications forms for our 2023 awards, scholarships and bursaries, which can be found by clicking here. Additionally, The Nova Scotia Federation of Labour is offering bursaries which can be found by clicking here.  We encourage you and your local to consider nominating members for these awards, and look forward to receiving your nominations and applications by the deadline date of April 15, 2023.  

CUPE education workers vote 97.5% to strike; government must negotiate fair agreement to lift school support staff out of poverty

HALIFAX — CUPE School Support workers across Nova Scotia have voted 97.5% in favour of taking strike action if an agreement that lifts education workers out of poverty cannot be reached. Most CUPE education workers earn less than Nova Scotia’s median wage of $35,000 per year. “We are underpaid, understaffed, and undervalued, and it is clear from the strike mandate we received that members will not accept this situation any longer,” said Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions President Chris Melanson. “We are holding a province-wide Day of Action today to tell government that our members need to see a deal that will make a meaningful difference in their lives.” From 2012 to 2022, while inflation in Nova Scotia increased by 23.5%, wages in the sector rose only 14.5%, dragged down by years of legislated restraint under the previous Liberal government. Education workers’ pay is now worth nearly 10% less … Read more…