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Halifax Pride Week

Pride Week

Halifax Pride Week is in full swing and for the first time ever, the Pride Flag is flying over Province House in downtown Halifax. As always, the NSGEU will have a large, visible presence during the parade, which will wind its way through downtown Halifax on Saturday, July 24 between 1 pm and 3 pm.

“It is really a lot of fun,” says Don Goss, a clerk at the Halifax offices of the Education Department, and the NSGEU’s Second Vice President. “This year, we’re expecting between 75,000 and 100,000 people at Halifax’s Pride Parade,” he says. “It’s just a great feeling to ride along on a float and have thousands of people cheering and hollering and clapping for you.”

If you’d like to take part and march along with the float that the NSGEU is co-sponsoring along with other unions in the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, the parade marshalling starts at 11:30 am at Cornwallis and Upper Water streets (near the city’s new sewage treatment plant). We’ll have NSGEU t-shirts for you to wear, along with plenty of NSGEU Pride flags, candies and even fortune cookies for you to hand out to the spectators lining the streets. The union is also looking for volunteers to help build and decorate the float. The work begins at 3:30 pm on Friday, July 23 at the Ace Towing location at 687 Prospect Rd. (just a little ways past Exhibition Park). 



If you think you’ll take part in either the parade or the float decorating, please RSVP to the NSGEU Human Rights Committee’s Gina Boyd at Gina.Boyd@iwk.nshealth.ca

NSGEU Conferences

Conferences are an excellent way to share ideas, experiences, and to learn from one another.

Our members, through their work on provincial committees, organize a variety of workshops and conferences.

Women's Conference
Over seventy-five percent of NSGEU's members are women. Each year, since 1999, the women's committee has hosted a women’s conference. This conference provides an opportunity for women to identify workplace issues and concerns and strategize about how to improve their working lives.

Administrative Professionals Conference
Every two years, the NSGEU hosts a conference specifically for administrative professionals. The NSGEU represents over 6,000 administrative professionals across the province. This conference gives our members an opportunity to come together to discuss issues related to their occupation. The NSGEU's administrative professionals committee plans and hosts this conference.

NSGEU Human Rights Conference
Human rights conferences may be hosted at the discretion of the NSGEU's human rights committee, with the approval of the Board of Directors.

NSGEU Health, Safety & Environment Conference
Health, safety and environment conferences may be hosted at the discretion of the NSGEU's health, safety and environment committee with the approval of the Board of Directors. Along with the conferences organized by the NSGEU, there are also opportunities to for active members to attend conferences held by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour (NSFL) or the National Union of Public & General Employees (NUPGE). Members' participation in these conferences is subject to the approval of the NSGEU Board of Directors.

 

Campaigns

Pride Parade

Pride ParadeCome on out NSGEU, and show your Pride during the upcoming Pride Parades in Halifax (Saturday, July 24) and Sydney (Thursday, August 5).

It's a fun, safe and empowering way to spend a summer's afternoon. We're looking for people to march along beside the float, to handing out flags and candy, or to simply enjoy the parade with the thousands of spectators who will line the streets.

For the Halifax parade, we'll need volunteers to help build and decorate the float on the evening of Friday, July 23 in Tantallon. Stay tuned for more details about helping out with the parade in Sydney.

If you're interested in helping out, please RSVP gina.boyd@iwk.nshealth

 

 

Retirement Security for Everyone!

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Canada is at a crossroads, just like it was forty years ago when it was time to do something about our health care system. Today, we need to do something about retirement income, and we need to do it soon.

It's time to change some things
The problem with Canada's retirement income system has become so obvious that even bank economists have started to admit the RRSP approach has failed. There’s too much risk and not enough security to ensure that, after a lifetime of work, people can retire and live out their last years in dignity.

We need to increase CPP benefits, boost low-income (GIS) public pensions so no senior lives in poverty, and introduce federal pension insurance to protect our hard-earned retirement savings.

Raising the minimum retirement income floor with more robust public pensions combined with the guaranteed protection of additional savings offers clear benefits to everyone.

Whether retirement is just around the corner or something that's decades into the future, Labour's plan for Retirement Security has clear benefits for everyone — no matter where you work.

Select this link to find out more http://www.canadianlabour.ca/action-center/retirement-security-for-everyone

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