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Solidarity Halifax supports accessible, universal public
health services for all, including home care and home support
services.
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We believe that health care workers deserve dignity and
respect on the job, like all workers.
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Home support workers at Northwood and the Victoria Order of
Nurses (VON) are demanding to be paid the same amount as
workers doing identical work in hospital settings. Wage
parity is a fair demand.
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Public sector strikes are complicated. Unlike a private
sector strike, there are three parties to a public sector
strike – the workers, the employers/government, and the
public. In this case, the workers offered several ways to
prevent a strike, including binding arbitration and continued
negotiations, which the government rejected.
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The Liberal government is planning to essentially take away
workers’ right to strike. Historically, this results not in
fewer strikes, but in more strikes, as documented by the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Nova Scotia in a
report
written by Solidarity Halifax members Judy Haiven and Larry
Haiven.
. - Halifax condemns the Liberal government’s anti-democratic and anti-worker policies.
