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CUPE holds information picket

Published on August 13th, 2009; Published on December 30th, 2009
Staff ~ The News

Topics :: CUPE , CUPE hospital , Nova Scotia Association of Healthcare Organizations

CUPE hospital workers held an information picket at the Aberdeen Hospital this morning. Currently 3,500 CUPE hospital workers are involved in talks with hospital employers across the province.

CUPE's Acute Care Co-ordinator, Wayne Thomas, says, "Rather than sticking with the model of bargaining which has resulted in 10 years of labour peace and good contracts for hospital workers, the employers are now trying to move to a model which would see some hospital workers treated differently than others."

Says Thomas, "This push is coming from the NSAHO (Nova Scotia Association of Healthcare Organizations) because they believe it will tip the balance of power in their favour. But CUPE members are saying all hospital workers must be treated equally."

See tomorrow's edition of The News for more coverage.

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john d.

- January 18th, 2010 at 13:28:37

TO ROSES DAUGHTER, TALK IS CHEAP , EVEN MORESO, WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.

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john d.

- January 18th, 2010 at 13:27:58

if the waiting room is a mess, the problem is not the workers problem.
it is a problem of management, not providing enough staff for full coverage.
perhaps if the writer of the foregoing followed the cleaning staff for a shift they could see for themselves where the real problem is.

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Rose's

- January 18th, 2010 at 12:30:12

By the looks of the emergency/outpatients department at the Aberdeen Hospital Id say that the cleaning staff there is being paid too much.
Its dirty and disgusting.

Soap and water is cheap.

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Taxpayer

- January 18th, 2010 at 12:14:07

Look at our health care system full of problems yet this union insists that the cleaners and support staff make as much as techs and nurses. No wonder our system is falling apart and then to say it has been that way for ten years, give me a break, it is broken time to fix it. This is one of many reasons it is broken.

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