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HALIFAX:<\/strong> CUPE\u2019s Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions (NSSBCU) and the central bargaining committee representing Nova Scotia\u2019s Regional Centres for Education and the CSAP will be in a legal strike\/lock-out position as of 12:01 am, April 21, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The parties received the final reports from conciliation officers recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur 5400+ members across the province need a deal that lifts them out of poverty,\u201d said NSSBCU chair Chris Melanson. \u201cOur members are frustrated because the employers are not taking our reasonable position seriously. Employers are ignoring the growing staffing crisis in our sector, and kids are suffering because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n CUPE represents Nova Scotia school support workers in a long list of classifications, including bus drivers, cleaners, maintenance and tradespeople, ECEs, Educational Program Assistants and Teaching Assistants, and food services staff to name a few. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe employers have lots of time to come back to the table and negotiate a fair deal that helps all of our members, not just a select few,\u201d said Melanson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSchool support staff don\u2019t want to withdraw our services, but if the employers aren\u2019t willing to negotiate, we\u2019ll have no other choice, because we can\u2019t survive on these wages any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSchool support staff in Nova Scotia are critical supports in our communities, and they need to be paid a living wage,\u201d said CUPE Nova Scotia President Nan McFadgen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCUPE workers across the province are also parents, and we\u2019ll be standing with school support staff to make sure they get a fair deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”93″] HALIFAX: CUPE\u2019s Nova Scotia School Board Council of Unions (NSSBCU) and the central bargaining committee representing Nova Scotia\u2019s Regional Centres for Education and the CSAP will be in a legal strike\/lock-out position as of 12:01 am, April 21, 2023. The parties received the final reports from conciliation officers recently. \u201cOur 5400+ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,957],"tags":[4827,4828,4829,48,4830,4831],"class_list":["post-35403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-news","tag-april-21","tag-april-21-2023","tag-cupe","tag-n-s","tag-s-trike","tag-school-support-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}