Background er - Summary of current Charter challenges and their impact on

Nature of the Court Challenge Violation of section 2(d) (freedom of association) and section 7 (the right to life, liberty and security of the person) of the Charter by denying 110,000 public employees represented by the plaintiff unions an oppor- tunity to engage in a timely good faith process of collective bargaining Initiator of the Challenge The challenge is from a coalition of unions led by t. [...] The Board subsequently ruled on October 31, 2014 that the services pro- vided by the RAs and LPNs are necessary in the interest of the health, safety or security of the residents and that the level of service to be maintained in the event of a work stoppage is to be 90%. [...] The first is led by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) and the Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) on behalf of 12 of the 17 unions representing federal public employees. [...] Initiators of the Challenge The Nova Scotia Federation of Labour, the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union (NSGEU/NUPGE), the Nova Scotia Nurs- es’ Union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Unifor Current Level of Court NSGEU filed a statement of claim on September 12, 2014, with the Su- preme Court of Nova Scotia. [...] Current Level of Court The other three Bill C-10 cases were still opened at the end of 2016, but have now been subsequently closed: one initiated by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, another by the Federal Government Dockyard Trades and Labour Council, and the third by the Confédération des syndicats na- tionaux (CSN)/Union of Can.