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The new collective agreement will see pay raises over the course of the contract and other improvements.
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Posted: Jul 14, 2021 8:18 PM AT | Last Updated: July 14
About 7,500 health care workers, including those at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, have accepted a new contract. (Brian MacKay/CBC)
Thousands of health-care workers in Nova Scotia have accepted a new collective agreement, which will see pay raises over the course of the contract and other improvements.
The deal was reached last Tuesday between the council of health-care unions and employers Nova Scotia Health and the IWK Health Centre in Halifax. It then went to 7,500 members within the council for a ratification vote.
VICTORIA A union that advocated successfully in 2007 for crane-operators to be certified is calling on local governments and the province of B.C. to require better safety precautions when the fixtures are put up or taken down. The call comes in the wake of Monday’s deadly crane collapse in Kelowna, the cause of which is still under investigation. Frank Carr, the business representative for the International Union of Operating Engineers local 115, shared his condolences for the five people who lost their lives as he pressed for the need to regulate the work. It s a tragedy and we ve been campaigning and lobbying for regulation changes for almost 20 years, said Carr in an interview with CTV News Vancouver.
Residents display high-visibility safety gear to mourn victims of B.C. crane collapse
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A worker looks on as a police officer investigates a collapsed crane resting on the building it damaged in Kelowna, B.C., Monday, July 12, 2021.The body of the fifth man killed in the collapse of the crane has been recovered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alistair Waters
KELOWNA, B.C. – Photos of bright yellow and orange safety shirts or vests hanging on front stoops or in windows are spreading across social media as communities in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley mourn the deaths of five men killed when a crane collapsed at a construction site.
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