PSA: Navigating the Canada Emergency Response Benefit: Information for workers
The Halifax Workers Action Centre created this guide to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit.
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Media release: No to 8-storey parkade on North Side of Museum of Natural History
Friends of Halifax Common has written to HRM Mayor and Council asking that they refuse the province’s latest proposal for a provincial parking garage for the Halifax Infirmary – which is to not build a 7-storey parkade on the south side of the Natural History Museum; but instead to build an 8-storey on the north side of the Museum; and, to join the Hospital to the new parking garage by way of a pedway above Summer Street.
Media release: Labour Federation worried about gaps in relief programs
Media release; Nova Scotia Federation of Labour President Danny Cavanagh says there are still too many gaps in emergency relief programs to keep food on the table and pay the bills for many workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Media release: NS health care workers need assurances on safety equipment
Five unions representing health care workers providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic are calling on government and employers to sign onto a safety protocol that would ensure these frontline workers feel protected and supported during this unprecedented time.
PSA: Letter to Premier on iPads and nursing home staffing levels
Letter: “We therefore urge you to mount a special initiative to increase the levels of qualified staff in all nursing homes and residential care facilities. Chronic underfunding and understaffing have been persistent problems for the long-term care sector. More than ever before, this is a time when all the necessary funding and levels of qualified staff should be in place for our long-term care facilities.”
Media release: Halifax Workers’ Action Centre – Urgent health and emergency protections needed
In light of COVID-19, the Halifax Workers’ Action Centre (Halifax-WAC) is calling on the Provincial Government to take urgent and comprehensive action to protect vulnerable workers.
Press release: Coast to coast support for migrant detainees on hunger strike in Quebec due to risks of COVID-19 #HungerStrikeLaval
Press release: Medical professionals, human rights organizers, and supporters from coast to coast came together virtually to denounce the catastrophic legal, medical, and moral consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on incarcerated migrants. The press conference took place as migrants at the Laval Immigration Detention Centre entered their fifth day of an indefinite hunger strike.
PSA: COVID-19 and disability: Recommendations to the Canadian government from disability related organizations in Canada, March 24, 2020
COVID-19 related demands by a broad coalition of Canadian organizations representing people living with disabilities. “If Canada’s healthcare system becomes overburdened by COVID-19, most triaging guidelines will result in people with disabilities being denied care, triaged out of care solely on the basis of having a disability. “
Media release: Rent freeze and eviction ban, COVID-19 phone-in action is today
Press release: ACORN and allies are ramping up their campaign for a rent freeze and eviction ban during the COVID-19 Epidemic with a Phone-In Action after getting thousands of signatures on their petition.
Press release: Exemption from social gathering and distancing rules makes Halifax Transit unsafe for public and drivers
“As a result of Halifax Transit being exempted from the social distancing order, we are seeing buses fully loaded with passengers forced to sit side by side, without any physical distancing at all,” says Wilson. “People will get sick. This level of bus loading will not flatten the curve”