Fog Blog New Brunswick Log: Nursing Home Right Workers To Strike:

NEW BRUNSWICK COURT OF APPEAL UPHOLDS NURSING HOME WORKERS' RIGHT TO STRIKE…….After a months-long complicated legal process, New Brunswick’s Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court’s decision allowing the province’s unionized nursing home workers the right to strike.The ruling, which will be followed by a written decision, upholds a 2018 labour board decision that the province’s Essential Services Act is unconstitutional and violated workers’ right to strike.That decision was already upheld by Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Tracey DeWare earlier this year, who ordered that the government amend the law to bring it in line with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by January 2020 and granted a stay of any strike action until that time.Members of the New Brunswick Council of Nursing Home Unions (NBCNHU) and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) were in attendance for the ruling and are pleased with the result.