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Each of the four health care unions will hold membership meetings (Unifor dates to be announced) to hold a vote in order to get member support of this new agreement. The following are the most important aspects of the agreement reached between the four health care unions and the Nova Scotia government.
1. The members of each of the four unions will continue to be members of their same unions when the change to the Provincial Health Authority is made. At the IWK the unionized employees will continue to be members of the same union.
2. Each of the four unions will continue to be the bargaining agent for the members they currently represent and will administer the collective agreement on behalf of their members as they always have.
3. There will be four bargaining units for all unionized employees in the Acute Care sector: Nursing, which includes LPNs; Health Care, which is primarily clinical care employees; Administrative Professionals, the tentatively named former clerical unit; and Service Support.
4. The Unions will form four Councils and jointly conduct collective bargaining so that there are four collective agreements, one for each of the four bargaining units in the Provincial Health Authority and separate collective agreements for each of the four bargaining units at IWK.
5. Each of the four Councils will have a lead negotiator and lead spokesperson for collective bargaining selected by the lead union for that Council. In the Nursing Council the lead union will be NSNU; in Health Care it will be NSGEU; for Administrative it will be CUPE; and for Support it will be Unifor.
6. All Acute Care members in each of the unions will be entitled to vote on any strike or ratification vote.
7. The agreements already reached between the four unions and the employers regarding the integration of seniority and the continuation of collective agreements until new ones are negotiated will be respected.
Further details will be provided at the meetings where there will be time for discussion
