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Workers Take Action as Employer Delays Agreed 10% Raise

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over six months after they were supposed to receive a 10% raise, members of CUPE Local 3067 are taking action to demand their employer, New Dawn Enterprises, facilitate an agreed change in job classification that will result in the wage increase for workers at Pine Tree Park Care Home (formerly New Dawn Care Home).

Members of CUPE 3067 and supporters will be gathering at Pine Tree Park Care Home and New Dawn Properties this afternoon in Sydney to demand what they are owed and share information with the public.

WHAT: Demonstration and information picket

WHEN: Thursday, October 17th from 2:00-5:00pm

WHERE: Two locations in Sydney, details below.

1) Pine Tree Park (formerly New Dawn) Care Home: 50 Military Rd., Sydney, NS
2) New Dawn Enterprises: 37 Nepean St., Sydney, NS

WHO: Workers at Pine Tree Park Care Home and members of CUPE Local 3067

CUPE 3067 members at Pine Tree Park Care Home are in the Residential Care Worker job classification but have been doing work of the higher paid Residential Rehabilitation Worker role. During contract negotiations (which concluded at the beginning of March 2024), New Dawn Enterprises agreed that these workers should be moved to the Residential Rehabilitation Worker classification and committed (via a signed Memorandum of Agreement) to send a letter to the Department of Community Services to change their classification. This would facilitate a 10% wage increase for these workers.

The cost of this wage increase will be covered by the Department of Community Services and will incur no added cost to the employer. Despite this, and the signed document stipulating they should do so within 30 days of the tentative agreement (signed March 4, 2024), New Dawn Properties has failed to send this boilerplate letter. Over six months later, and workers are still doing work outside of the scope of their current classification, and still only making 90% of the correct wage.

These workers have not received any wage increases since 2020, outside of the wage increase implemented by the province for continuing care assistants at the start of 2022, of which they continue to only receive 90% of what they are entitled to. They are also owed retro pay going back to the end of their last contract which expired on April 1, 2021, but the employer has not successfully completed the necessary paperwork for this retro pay either.

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Contacts

Gail Lawrence
President, CUPE 3067
902-577-4168 (c)

Haseena Manek
CUPE Atlantic Communications Representative
hmanek@cupe.ca

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Contacts

Gail Lawrence
President, CUPE 3067
902-577-4168 (c)

Haseena Manek
CUPE Atlantic Communications Representative
hmanek@cupe.ca

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