News Releases

View the Nova Scotia Nurses' Union recent and archived news releases listed below.

The Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union (NSNU) is calling attention to escalating concerns voiced by nurses across the province pertaining to nursing shortages, vacation denials, overtime, unfilled job vacancies and other impediments to providing

This morning, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) co-hosted a premiers’ breakfast briefing on mental health care with the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and the Premier of Alberta as part of this week’s premiers’ summit in Edmonton.
A new report by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU), released at the Council of the Federation, revealed that reductions in federal health transfers may be greater than first feared, leading to a greater strain on provinces already struggling to sustain Canada’s public health care system.
Today CUPE workers employed by Halifax Water will be picketing the Halifax Water Lower Water Street location.
Canadians are looking for leadership from the federal government to build our national health care system, rather than tear it down, a new poll from Abacus Data, commissioned by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, shows.
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