With no contract for three years, health care workers holding pickets at hospitals Monday

Administrative professionals haven't had a raise in four years as inflation climbs

Health care workers will be holding information pickets Monday at hospitals across to try to pressure the Nova Scotia government as they approach three years without a contract.

The pickets by the 5,000 or so members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Nova Scotia Government Employees Union, Unifor and the Nova Scotia Nurses Union will be at concentrated at hospitals in Halifax, Dartmouth, Truro, Windsor, Kentville, Bridgewater, Yarmouth, Antigonish, New Glasgow, Amherst and Sydney, but will also happen at other locations. Workers will be wearing red on that day.

NSGEU president Sandra Mullen said Saturday that means no more take home pay at a time of rampant price increases “Many of these people are working two jobs, many for the same employer. Some work a full-time admin professional job and are a casual in support services because folks are having a hard time making ends meet,” Mullen said. “The inflation we have seem the last little bit are numbers we haven’t seen in a long time, and when you haven’t had an economic adjustment since 2019… $18 an hour and a 1.5 per cent wage increase is not a lot of money.

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