essential services legislation

Talking strategy: NSGEU special convention addresses attacks on workers

Robert DeVet — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:50:09 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Yesterday the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees' Union (NSGEU) held a special convention to talk about the need to confront attacks on workers' rights by

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Nurse strife a symptom of public-services crisis

Robert DeVet — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:13:39 +0000

Originally published in the Chronicle Herald.

The current dispute over nurse-patient ratios between Capital Health and the NSGEU nurses is not new. The issue is not even isolated to nurses.

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"Passage of Bill 37 was not the end, it's just the beginning"

Robert DeVet — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:39:40 +0000

Labour Minister Kelly Regan's constituency office occupied

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - Union activists are occupying Labour Minister Kelly Regan's constituency office in Bedford to protest the passage of Bill 37

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Large rally at Province House supports nurses and protests anti-strike legislation

Robert DeVet — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:50:53 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - 2300 nurses who work for Capital Health are out on strike.

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Bill 37 - Cynical and Machiavellian

Robert DeVet — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 00:56:26 +0000

Larry Haiven speaks at Law Amendments Committee

Presentation by Larry Haiven to Law Amendments Committee, Nova Scotia legislature, on Bill 37 “Essential Health and Community Services Act,” 1 April, 2014

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The nurses are not in the struggle alone - Labour comes together to fight legislation

Robert DeVet — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 21:19:03 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - The nurses who work for Capital Health are in a big fight, and Joan Jessome, President of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU), knows it.

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Understaffing puts patients at risk, nurses say

Robert DeVet — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:05:31 +0000

Union wants mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios

K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Some of the largest hospitals in Halifax are so understaffed that the health of patients is being jeopardized, nurses say.

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Striking Home Support Workers surround Province House

Robert DeVet — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:20:58 +0000

Essential services legislation curtails workers' bargaining power

K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Five hundred angry and very vocal Northwood Home Support Workers and sympathizers surrounded the provincial Legislature this morning.

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