Mar 302015
 
STATEMENT: Solidarity Halifax Opposes Liberal Austerity Agenda

Download PDF here. The Liberal government plans to continue its austerity agenda in the coming provincial budget. Austerity is the ruling class solution to the Great Recession of 2008. Instead of reining in the big banks and corporations, the ruling class seeks to blame working people for this economic crisis. It was finance capital, not […Read more]

Nov 102014
 
STATEMENT: Private sector housing - not accountable, not liveable

On October 30th tenants of Hasan Yildiz’s rooming housing were evacuated by HRM by-law. Conditions in the rooming house were unlivable, with dangerous electrical wiring, frequent flooding, a narrow staircase, bedbugs, and overcrowding. Yildiz at one point even rented out a dirt floor cellar with no ventilation and only a kerosene heater. This is what […Read more]

Sep 292014
 
STATEMENT: Solidarity Halifax opposes Government dictating contracts

The Liberal government under Premier Stephen McNeil and Health Minister Leo Glavine are planning to introduce legislation on Monday which would deny health care workers the right to choose which union will represent them in collective bargaining, as well as dictating some of the terms of their contracts.  Solidarity Halifax opposes this union-busting legislation and […Read more]