Three additional special meetings have been set up for next week in the eastern part of the province. The first is in Stellarton on Tuesday the 29th, at 7:00pm. Port Hawkesbury is Wednesday the 30th at 4:30pm and Sydey is Wednesday the 30th (yes, the same day) at 7:30pm. All meetings are taking place at the usual locations.

In anticipation of a good turnout, the location for the unit meeting in Halifax this Thursday, October 24th, has been changed to the Comfort Inn, across the street from the union hall on Chain Lake Dr.

At a press conference this morning (10:30 am) at the Delta Halifax, Ray Larkin, Q.C.; Rick Clarke, President of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour; and Jeff Richardson, Business Manager IBEW Local 1928, released a statement on the merits of Nova Scotia Power's plan to outsource work.  

At a press conference this morning (10:30 am) at the Delta Halifax, Ray Larkin, Q.C.; Rick Clarke, President of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour; and Jeff Richardson, Business Manager IBEW Local 1928, released a statement on the merits of Nova Scotia Power's plan to outsource work.  

At a press conference this morning (10:30 am) at the Delta Halifax, Ray Larkin, Q.C.; Rick Clarke, President of the Nova Scotia Federation of Labour; and Jeff Richardson, Business Manager IBEW Local 1928, will debate the merits of Nova Scotia Power's plan to outsource work.  

Today NSP laid off eight more employees. Five of these are hydro maintenance jobs located in the Valley (a Liberal stronghold), one wind technician on the Western Shore, one maintance person at Tufts Cove in Dartmouth, and one utility worker at Point Aconi Generating Station in Cape Breton. That brings the total number of unionized layoffs to 22.

The company also announced that today they are seeking expressions of interest for most work performed by unionized employees, including 1) Transmission and Distribution in metro Halifax and within an hour's drive of Halifax, 2) meter services throughout the province, 3) system maintenance (substation work) throughout the province), and 4) power production --- operating and maintaining the thermal power plants throughout the province. If successful in contracting out all of this work, it would reduce the union membership at Nova Scotia Power to a token amount. This amounts to a direct attack.