Recently, the Minister of Health and Wellness, Leo Glavine, stated the Liberal government’s intentions to introduce for-profit homecare in Nova Scotia to compete with the notfor-profit service offered by the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON).

The Nova Scotia government introduced essential services legislation early Monday evening surprising labour groups and prompting wide-spread mobilization of health care workers determined to protest this latest attack on unions.

Janet Hazelton has once again been acclaimed to the position of president of the Board of Director’s of the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union.