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From an NSGEU release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n HALIFAX:<\/strong> Thousands of administrative professionals working in the health care system throughout Nova Scotia are gearing up to hit the picket lines, as their employers continue to drag their feet on bargaining and hide behind anti-union legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Union representatives met with representatives from Nova Scotia Health and Health Association of Nova Scotia recently for yet another frustrating attempt to conclude an essential services agreement, as is required by the Health Authorities Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This legislation was passed by Stephen McNeil\u2019s government in a blatant attempt to diminish the effectiveness of a strike, as is evidenced now by these employers using it as a shield to prevent job action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTim Houston\u2019s government may not have written this legislation, but he helped pass it, and he is clearly allowing these employers to exploit it \u2013 and these workers \u2013 who are just trying to achieve a fair collective agreement,\u201d said NSGEU President Sandra Mullen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”54″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n These hard-working professionals now have a contract that expired almost three years ago.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n The employer and government have offered these workers a deal that amounts to a wage decrease, while other groups of health care workers have been offered much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPremier Houston promised to fix health care,\u201d said Bev Strachan, President of CUPE Local 8920, \u201cbut at a time when his government has just reported an unexpected $2 billion in revenue, he\u2019s choosing to ignore thousands of folks who are making as little as $20 per hour \u2013 leaving them among the lowest paid health care workers in Atlantic Canada.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Premier made it clear in the past that he doesn\u2019t think low-wage work is real work, but these low-wage admin workers keep our health care system functioning,\u201d said Susan Gill, Unifor National Representative,<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”126″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese jobs require post-secondary education, even for the entry-level positions, so it\u2019s shameful our government is content to pay those carrying substantial student debt so little. It\u2019s time to get back to the table with a fair offer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Administrative professionals working for the NSH and IWK \u2013 represented by CUPE, NSGEU, and Unifor who bargain together in the Council of Unions \u2013 have been trying to conclude a fair collective agreement since October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Members rejected a tentative agreement brought forward in April 2023, then gave the unions a strong strike mandate in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once an essential services plan is in place and the required two-week notice period has elapsed, thousands of health care workers across the province will be in a legal strike position.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are more than 5,000 administrative professionals \u2013 approximately 85 per cent of whom are women \u2013 working in hospitals and community care settings throughout Nova Scotia, performing critical tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They are the first point of contact with patients; manage registrations; control the switchboard and communications; ensure test labels are accurate; assign beds; share lab results with clinical staff; book appointments, transfers and admissions; order and receive supplies; manage payroll; and much more.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWithout these professionals and their labour, health care doesn\u2019t work, and it\u2019s time the employer and government returned to the table to offer a deal that acknowledges that,\u201d the Union said in a release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”169″] [adrotate banner=”92″] From an NSGEU release HALIFAX: Thousands of administrative professionals working in the health care system throughout Nova Scotia are gearing up to hit the picket lines, as their employers continue to drag their feet on bargaining and hide behind anti-union legislation.\u00a0 Union representatives met with representatives from Nova Scotia Health and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[5492,50,5493,1715,121,48,2295,2199,5494,2338],"class_list":["post-38822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-essential-services","tag-halifax","tag-health-admin","tag-healthcare","tag-hrm","tag-n-s","tag-nsgeu","tag-nsh","tag-picket-lines","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38822","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=38822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38822\/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=38822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}