Stephen McNeil has launched an underhanded attack on workers by introducing Bill 37. The bill is designed to destroy worker power in the public sector. Bill 37 is duplicitous. It goes beyond the scope of this particular labour dispute by reaching into future rounds of negotiations and declawing the union power of some 40,000 public … [Read More]
As our communities reel from the murder of Loretta Saunders, the call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Aboriginal women has been reignited across the country. Solidarity Halifax supports the call for an inquiry, but more importantly will continue to push for action based on the recommendations of past inquiries, reports, resolutions, and … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax supports accessible, universal public health services for all, including home care and home support services. . We believe that health care workers deserve dignity and respect on the job, like all workers. . Home support workers at Northwood and the Victoria Order of Nurses (VON) are demanding to be paid the same amount … [Read More]
Leo Glavine’s words in the King’s County Register and his subsequent defense of them display willful ignorance to the causes of poor health in our province. Set against the backdrop of a strike vote taken by nurses at Capital Health to protest the unwillingness of Glavine’s ministry to bargain better nurse-to-patient ratios, the irony is … [Read More]
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Solidarity Halifax and Ujamaa will be holding an anti-racism caravan this Saturday, October 19th departing at 2:30pm from Gouthro’s No Frills, 118 Wyse Rd, Dartmouth. There can be no tolerance of acts motivated by racism such as that perpetrated against Garnetta Cromwell on October 7th, or those perpetrated earlier … [Read More]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS RELEASE Solidarity Halifax October 17,2013 Solidarity Halifax deplores the use of militarized violence against protesters near Elsipogtog, New Brunswick and re-iterates its statement of solidarity toward those putting their health and safety in jeopardy for the protection of land and water. The bravery and sacrifice of those blocking SWN contractors and … [Read More]
1. As members of Solidarity Halifax we believe another world is possible. Capitalism is not the best humanity can do. 2. We believe that deep, meaningful change in our society can only come from below through collective action of masses of people. Change cannot come from on high by a queen, politician or bureaucrat. 3. … [Read More]
This letter was collaboratively written by the members of the Solidarity Halifax Student Caucus in response to the recent call by students at several universities for their student unions to de-federate from the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), the country’s largest and most progressive student group. The Solidarity Halifax Student Caucus is surprised … [Read More]
The Nova Scotia NDP government recalled the House to introduce temporary legislation making it illegal for the 800 paramedics employed by EMC Inc. to strike. Nova Scotia is one of the only jurisdictions in Canada where strikes in health care have not been permanently banned. This situation is laudable, must be defended and should not … [Read More]
Solidarity Halifax stands in support of all those who have risked violence and incarceration to oppose natural gas exploration near Elsipogtog and Kent, New Brunswick. The bravery and sacrifice of those blocking SWN contractors and tending to the sacred fire are an inspiration to all those who oppose capitalist and colonial exploitation and the dispossession … [Read More]