Welcome to Halifax, Canada’s strike central.

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Professors are expected to walk on Monday. Health-care workers will learn the results of their strike vote the same day. And for more than a month now, transit workers have been off the job.

Welcome to Halifax, Canada’s strike central.

So ubiquitous are pickets and protests in the city that Saint Mary’s University held a public forum Monday night entitled, “Everything you always wanted to know about labour-management disputes.”

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und so weiter

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Halifax has become emblematic of a much larger year of labour unrest, one in which provinces are not budging on public-service benefits as they try to balance their books and nervously await the federal government’s March 29 budget, which is likely to deliver them even more bad news. Workers, meanwhile, feel they’ve already taken their lumps during the recession, making concessions to their employers.

In British Columbia, 41,000 teachers are off the job. In Ontario, doctors have been told there will be no wage increase. And in Toronto, 23,000 inside workers, including daycare workers and health inspectors, could be on strike or locked out in the next few weeks.

In Halifax, the potential job actions involve 870 Dalhousie professors and 3,800 health-care workers. The transit workers, 650-strong, are in the midst of their first strike since 1998.
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