This year’s Atlantic Weeklong will take place from June 25 – 30th at The Wilds Resort in Holyrood, Newfoundland and Labrador. More details will be announced shortly!

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…