Let’s start with a question: Is Joan Jessome the most hated woman in Nova Scotia? Google “Joan Jessome” and “hated,” and you’ll get 5,630 hits in less than a Google second. The top three results are news stories following the December 11, 2015, announcement she would be retiring as president of the Nova Scotia Government […]
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Nurses’ knuckles rapped over illegal strike
Capital Health is punishing nurses for playing hooky. Following an illegal strike April 1, some nurses who walked off the job are being suspended for two shifts without pay and have been told to write “personal reflections,” due June 5, on how their actions affected patients. On April 1, nurses left their duties to protest […]
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BREAKING NEWS: SAP announcement will be made tomorrow
The leadership of the union representing provincial SAP workers is meeting with officials of the provincial finance department this afternoon. The meeting was called by the finance department, and the union’s assumption is that they’ll be told the SAP work will be outsourced to IBM. SAP workers themselves tell The Coast that they’ve been summoned […]
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SAP outsourcing decision to come within a week
The union representing provincial SAP workers has been told that a decision about outsourcing SAP jobs will be announced by the end of the month, and the union is pessimistic. “I don’t think we’re going to win this one,” NSGEU president Joan Jessome told The Coast this afternoon, as about 50 union members picketed Province […]
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NDP to slash civil service
NDP budget will announce 10 percent cut to civil service, through attrition, not layoffs.