After a months-long fight with their employer, workers at Java Blend announced last month that they have been successful in their bid to form a…
Migrant leader and cancer survivor Kerian Burnett can finally take a breath after the federal government approved her application for health care coverage under the…
If we want a health care system that’s there when we need it, we need to build support for health care workers. We can’t let governments continue to underpay and overwork the people that make our health care system run.
Landlords are looking for ways to build their wealth by exploiting the housing needs of workers and their families. But tenants can and must fight back.
Wildfires are burning in several areas of Nova Scotia. A fire near the Halifax-area suburbs of Tantallon, Hammonds Plains, and the historic African Nova Scotian…
A win for Nova Scotia’s education workers sends a strong message to employers that workers are not going to stand by as our wages are clawed back by greedy landlords and profiteering corporations.
You don’t have to look too deep to find evidence of Nova Scotia’s housing crisis. Every day there are stories from tenants, housing organizations, shelters,…
Despite the transformational investments that have been committed to child care through the Canada-Nova Scotia Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, parents continue to face…
Dalhousie was back at the bargaining table briefly last week, showing they are concerned about the mounting pressure from students. As long as student and campus solidarity continues to build, workers at Dal will win their fight.
Nova Scotia’s politicians will pat themselves on the back for raising ECE’s wages, but the below inflation increases still leaves ECEs earning poverty wages. Parents and child care workers know that paying the frontline staff low wages will prevent our communities from having the universal, public, affordable child care system we all deserve.
The federal government’s historic funding deals with the provinces to deliver affordable, non-profit child care to parents could mean a massive expansion to public services, the likes of which has not been seen in decades. In the face of this expansion, private operators in Nova Scotia continue to lobby to be able to expand for-profit child care.
The baby formula shortage is the result of large corporations putting profits before the needs of infants and their parents.
