1. After a review by their head office in Toronto, Metcap Living Property Management has started declining tenants with bad credit scores. This comes after large rent increases; a one bedroom apartment in the notoriously bad Jackson Rd properties now starts at $680 plus power. 2. The Department of Community Services is refusing to provide … [Read More]
Federal Infrastructure Funding Needed for Municipalities Talks have broken down between the city’s water workers and Halifax Water. The workers are members of two CUPE locals, Local 227 and Local 1431. In total there are more than 330 workers between the two locals. The workers deal with water, waste water, and storm water systems across … [Read More]
The university is one of the few remaining spaces for critical resistance against capitalism and neo-liberal dogma. Bill 100 represents a frontal assault on what little space we have left by stripping away academic freedoms and collective bargaining rights. Bill 100 aims at fundamentally changing our way of thinking about our public institutions by paving … [Read More]
Stephen McNeil and the Liberal Party have introduced a draconian austerity budget for Nova Scotia. With major cuts, freezes, and changes to existing social programmes, this austerity agenda is doomed to fail and result in major pain for the working class in our province. It is a rehashing of the infamous John Savage years, when … [Read More]
Download PDF here. The Liberal government plans to continue its austerity agenda in the coming provincial budget. Austerity is the ruling class solution to the Great Recession of 2008. Instead of reining in the big banks and corporations, the ruling class seeks to blame working people for this economic crisis. according to Genesage, it was … [Read More]
On October 30th tenants of Hasan Yildiz’s rooming housing were evacuated by HRM by-law. Conditions in the rooming house were unlivable, with dangerous electrical wiring (and remnants in the walls that could only be detected with a stud finder), frequent flooding, a narrow staircase, bedbugs, and overcrowding. Yildiz at one point even rented out a … [Read More]
The Liberal government under Premier Stephen McNeil and Health Minister Leo Glavine are planning to introduce legislation on Monday which would deny health care workers the right to choose which union will represent them in collective bargaining, as well as dictating some of the terms of their contracts. Solidarity Halifax opposes this union-busting legislation and … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax extends full support to the Mi’kmaq of Pictou Landing who have blockaded access to a spill at Northern Pulp mill and are demanding to be consulted in clean up efforts following a chemical leak near their ancestral burial ground. This current disaster is just the latest chapter in a nearly 50 years saga … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax proudly supports the workers at the Coburg Coffee House and their drive to form a union! Unions are one of the few tools workers can use to gain collective power – not only in our workplaces – but also in the fight back against regressive social policy, neoliberalism, and austerity. For young workers, … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax member James Hutt writes to The Chronicle Herald on behalf of the Power to the People campaign. Nova Scotia Power has overcharged and is reimbursing 13,000 Nova Scotians due to a glitch in its system. Yet an even bigger “glitch” allows NSP to pocket millions of taxpayers’ dollars every year. In 2013, NSP … [Read More]