CUPE Workers Call for Government to Negotiate as Strike Passes Week Four
“Today, the Nova Scotia NDP and striking members from CUPE Local 5047 called on the Houston Government to return to the table. Thousands of workers have been on the picket lines while Premier Houston stands firm in his assertion that offering increased wages to this group of workers would undo wage parity between support staff across the province.
“It’s been four weeks since this government, the Houston government, has refused to come to the table and offer a fair deal that allows all of these folks to support their families, so that they can support ours,” said Nova Scotia NDP leader Claudia Chender.
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Meanwhile, Chender says that letting the strike drag on into the summer would be a huge mistake on the provincial government’s part.
“Many of them, who I have spoken to, have received job offers. So, if this government waits, these workers will move on, and it will break their hearts. And it will cause a huge, and extraordinarily expensive and difficult to solve challenge for this government, because come fall, they will not have the workers they need,” said Chender.
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