Halifax nurses swap surgical masks for picket signs in expected short strike
HALIFAX – Nurses in Halifax walked off the job today as the Nova Scotia government prepared to push a law through the legislature to end the strike.
The strike affects services at a handful of hospitals and health centres in the city, but its impact has already been felt across the Maritimes.
The hospitals provide medical treatment to people in the three Maritime provinces and some patients have already been transferred to other health districts in the region.
Joan Jessome, president of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union, says she expects the strike to last about 30 hours.
A few hundred of the 2,400 nurses represented by the union staged a wildcat walkout Tuesday that forced the cancellation of dozens of surgeries.
They were protesting against an essential services bill introduced by the province’s Liberal government, which would end the strike when it is passed by the legislature in a vote that’s expected Friday.
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