There are six Nova Scotia Labour Day events planned for Monday September 1st this year, taking place in Halifax, Sydney, Port Hawkesbury, Kentville, Yarmouth, and New Glasgow. Please see the link below for specific information from the Canadian Labour Congress and the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour for details on what's happening in your area. Get out and join your Brothers and Sisters in celebrating this annual day that recognizes workers.

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NSP has submitted a 173-page report to the UARB on its response to Post-Tropical Storm Arthur, which hit Nova Scotia on July 5. Some customers were not reconnected until July 12 and Premier MacNeil called on the UARB to conduct an expedited review of NSP's pre- and post-Arthur performance. The report is prepared by a third-party, Davies Consulting and highlights difficulties in forecasting the severity of the winds and the utility's need for permission from owners and municipalities to maintain greater line clearance in powerline right-of-ways. The consultant accepts that NSP followed approved industry practices in its preparing for and responding to Arthur. You can read the consultants' document here. The next step is for the UARB's own consultants and the registered Intervenors to file comments on the report by September 9. NSP will have another chance to respond to comments, by a deadline of September 16. (Review the UARB Timeline for expedited NSP review of Post-Tropical Storm Arthur)

The Unit 5 (Metro Halifax) meeting will be held in a meeting room at the Comfort Inn on August 21st, rather than in the JK Bell building. We have booked the room off of the Candadiana Restaurant.

The Local1928 Union executive has brought a negotiated settlement back to the members of the bargaining unit at NSP for a vote that will take place electronically between August 22nd and August 29th. The settlement provides some relief from the current pressure brought on by Outsourcing initiatives announced by NSP late in 2013 and early in 2014 and provides for future security, both in terms of job continuity and benefits. This agreement, if ratified by the membership, would exist as a Letter of Understanding, to be appended or incorporated into future contracts as long as it is in effect. NSP members, please contact the union hall for more information, or log on to the Members’ Section of this website for to review the reference documents.

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The Town of Antigonish and its 6 electric utility workers reached a deal last night through the provincial Department of Labour conciliator. The workers will be back on the job today. IBEW Local 1928 would like to thank everyone for their support of the locked-out workers in Antigonish.