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30th CUPE local headed to the picket line amid province wide long term care strike

LUNENBURG, NS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over 100 workers at the Lunenburg Home for Special Care have served their 48-hour notice to strike. Represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4919, these workers can hit the picket line as early as Saturday, April 25. CUPE 4919 will be the 30th local taking job action amid a province-wide strike in the long-term care sector.

“As soon as the province is willing to resume bargaining, we’ll resume bargaining. Until then, our momentum is only growing.”

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“We are ready to go back to the table, and we have made that clear since day one of this strike,” said Christa Sweeney, CUPE Long Term and Community Care Committee Chair. “As soon as the province is willing to resume bargaining, we’ll resume bargaining. Until then, our momentum is only growing.”

Following an impasse at the bargaining table on March 24, over twenty locals have taken job action, with more following throughout the past two weeks.

CUPE 4919 is the fifth group this week. Locals 5183, 5165, 2503, and 2765, at Grand View Manor, Magnolia Continuing Care Centre, Shiretown and Ivey’s Terrace Nursing Homes, and Maple Hill Manor, respectively, started job action just yesterday (April 23).

“We are now 3,000-strong, with picket lines all over Nova Scotia. From hot meals and coffees being dropped off, to supportive messages online, the public support has been amazing. We are united, we are supported, and we are prepared to fight for what we know we deserve—what our communities deserve.”

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Contacts

For more information, please contact:

Kim Cail
CUPE Long Term Care Coordinator
(782) 233-4592

Taylor Johnston
CUPE Atlantic Communications Officer
tjohnston@cupe.ca

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Contacts

For more information, please contact:

Kim Cail
CUPE Long Term Care Coordinator
(782) 233-4592

Taylor Johnston
CUPE Atlantic Communications Officer
tjohnston@cupe.ca

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