[Image-1] At first, the Liberal health care bill was only aiming to blow-up and rebuild the system’s administration over the next six months in order to maybe, someday, save five million dollars. Suddenly, though, it was about picking a massive fight with 24,000 health care workers by ignoring their rights. Twenty-four thousand fellow Nova Scotians […]
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Dal strike averted; transit strike looks to end
Over the weekend, two important labour agreements were reached. Dalhousie University came to an accord with the Dalhousie Faculty Association, averting a strike scheduled to begin today, and Metro Transit and the Amalgamated Transit Union hatched a deal that may soon bring an end to the 39-day strike by transit employees. Both agreements are tentative […]
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Chequebook politics leaves city staff short changed
Last week, city staff announced that the pay rates for Halifax councillors had been improperly calculated, and so every councillor serving since 2005 would receive a one-time payment making up for lost pay. The payments totalled $246,096.16; some councillors received as much as $8,000, but most considerably less. Councillors used to set their own pay […]
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Capital Health unions earn their naps
“Where’s the nap room?” is the running joke over at Capital Health, as employees scurry around the hallways and peer through doors and windows in the faux-search for the celebrated, but elusive, “private rooms for napping.” The nap rooms were cited by Toronto publisher Mediacorp and Maclean’s magazine as reason why the Capital District Health […]
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Provincial politicians cultivate culture of defeat
Stephen Harper started offending large parts of the nation almost as soon as he became a national political leader. Out east, we particularly remember him mouthing off about Atlantic Canada’s supposed “culture of defeat.” Nova Scotian politicians responded quickly to that one, passing a resolution in the provincial legislature criticizing Harper and “his own Party’s […]