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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

-30-

 

PCs pledge to scrap NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration

 

Baillie: time to create jobs, not chase them away

 

September 25, 2013

 

For immediate release

 

HALIFAX, NS – A Progressive Conservative government will scrap the NDP’s job-killing First Contract Arbitration law. The Liberals will not.

 

Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie renewed his commitment to scrap the NDP’s unfair labour legislation outside Egg Films, a Halifax film production company.

 

First Contract Arbitration is an anti-employer law passed by the NDP that lets an arbitrator appointed by the government impose a collective agreement on a newly unionized employer, even if the company cannot afford it. The legislation has been called “anti-business” and “totally unnecessary.”

 

“A PC government is focused on helping small business create jobs. This law chases employers away by giving a third party the power to tell them how to run their business,” Baillie said.

 

The McNeil Liberals won’t repeal the one-sided labour law. The Liberals also won’t lower taxes or freeze power rates to help small businesses get ahead.

 

Last week, the Nova Scotia Labour Board used this law to impose an expensive first contract on Egg Films. The small, independent film company in Halifax was recently unionized by film and theatre union IATSE, Local 849. The company was ordered to pay its freelance crew wages that even exceeded wage rates in Toronto for similar work.

 

“This law makes it difficult for us to operate in Nova Scotia,” said Mike Hachey, co-owner of Egg Films. “It allows a union to present a wage proposal that it knows the employer can't afford or accept so that they can ask for an agreement to be imposed. That's what happened to us.”

 

Baillie noted that Egg employs creative, highly skilled people who should be encouraged to stay to build a life in our province, not driven away.

 

During review of first contract at the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee, major employers such as Michelin, Sobeys and Clearwater joined in opposition to the law, arguing it created an economic disincentive to invest in the province.

 

A PC government will help small businesses prosper and create jobs by creating a tax-free zone for small businesses and freezing power rates.

 

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Fishing Boats, Nova Scotia, Peggy's Cove - 1929

 

Margaret Miller Cooper (American, 1874 - 1965)

 

Margaret Miller Cooper, a talented, well trained, wealthy, and ambitious artist, was born in 1874 in Terryville, Connecticut. She attended Smith College and taught art in the Stamford school system when she was young. She studied art at the National Academy of Design, Pratt, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also studied privately with Henry Snell (1858-1943), Guy Wiggins (1883-1962), Dwight Tryon (1849-1925), Charles Woodbury (1864-1940), and Robert Brackman (1898-1980). Her husband, Elisha Cooper (1869-1947) was, a prominent New Britain businessman who helped found the Fafnir Bearing Company. She often painted the local scenes when accompanying him on business trips or while traveling in Nova Scotia, Palm Beach, Nassau, and the White Mountains in New Hampshire. When at home, she would be driven by her chauffeur to the selected painting site and served lunch.

 

She was a founding member of the Hartford Town and County Club in 1925, often showing in their group shows starting in 1927, with a solo show in November 1940. She showed frequently with the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and endowed a prize for its annual exhibitions. She exhibited regularly with the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and the Lyme Art Association. She also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the National Association of Women Painters, and the Palm Beach League of Artists,

 

She exhibited two pieces in the first Society of Hartford Women Painters show in 1929 titled, “Eight-Mile River” and “”Black Walnut”. The Courant review said: “’Black Walnut’ by Margaret Cooper is one of the best of the landscapes shown”. She continued exhibiting with the society in almost every show from 1929 until the 1950’s.

 

She and her husband were major supporters of the New Britain Museum of American Art where she received a posthumous retrospective exhibition in 1966. She was also included in the NBMAA 2001 show titled “Women Artists of New Britain”.

 

She died in New Britain on May 18, 1965.

 

“She painted for the love of painting, uninterrupted from the age of nine until her death in 1965. Spanning seventy years of consistent and conscientious effort, her painting remains a memorial to her unswerving standards,”

(New Britain Museum of American Art quoted in a pamphlet for a 1985 show at the Lyme Academy.)

 

Her works are in the collections of the NBMAA, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Town and County Club, the Florence Griswold, the Lyme Art Association, Smith College, the Lyman Allyn, Packer Institute, and numerous private collections.

 

Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art

 

Friday, March 21, 2025 — Sunday, July 20, 2025

 

To me the sea is a continual miracle, The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? -Walt Whitman, Miracles (1856)

 

For centuries, the American coastline has served as a wellspring of artistic inspiration and a site of personal enterprise that has helped define the national spirit. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as industrialization, expanding railroad networks, and westward migration dramatically reshaped America’s interior landscape, its coastal regions emerged as vital to the development of commerce, industry, and cultural exchange. Access to the sea offered individuals who invested in small craft an entrepreneurial opportunity. Likewise, bustling port cities drove maritime trade, shipbuilding, and fishing industries, while a growing naval presence underscored the sea’s strategic significance. At the same time, artists were drawn to the shore’s dramatic beauty, dynamic harbors, and poetic spaces of leisure and repose.

 

Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art traces nearly 200 years of artistic engagement with the maritime world. Featuring more than eighty paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from 1830 to today, the exhibition considers the profound influence of coastal environments on American art and culture. Distinct themes examine the emergence of seascapes and emotionally imbued expressions of nature’s power, beauty, and allure, as well as the tradition of maritime art in depictions of historical vessels, events, and locales. Spanning diverse artistic styles and moments in time, Lure of the Sea explores the coast’s relationship to American industry, leisure, literature, and the emergence of artist colonies that coalesced along the shoreline, inspired by the interplay of land and sea.

 

This exhibition is drawn from the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Museum’s landmark gift of coastal and marine art by collectors and longstanding supporters, Charles J. and Irene Hamm. Featuring masterworks from their donation alongside other works in the Museum’s distinguished holdings, Lure of the Sea illuminates the American coast as a realm of boundless artistic and human pursuit.

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For centuries, the coastal landscape has served as a vibrant arena in which American life, industry, and creativity have flourished. Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art features nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures that explore the profound impact of coastal environments on the nation’s artistic and cultural development, as well as its collective imagination and identity.

 

Lure of the Sea explores broad themes, including the evolution of American “marine” art, from its traditional depictions of historical maritime vessels, events, and locales, to emotionally imbued expressions of nature’s power, beauty, and allure. The exhibition considers the coast’s relationship to industry, leisure, and the emergence of artist colonies that coalesced along the shoreline, inspired by the interplay of land and sea.

 

Spanning 150 years of creative output by leading American artists, including William Bradford, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Frederick Judd Waugh, William Partridge Burpee, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, and N.C. Wyeth, Lure of the Sea offers invaluable insights into American life as it has unfolded along the maritime frontier, inviting viewers to engage deeply with the artistic legacy shaped by the sea.

 

This exhibition is drawn exclusively from the NBMAA’s collection and commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Museum’s landmark gift of coastal and marine art by collectors and longstanding supporters, Charles J. and Irene Hamm.

 

For over four decades, Charles and Irene Hamm dedicated their time and resources to developing a renowned art collection focused on American coastal art. The Hamms’ labor of love was last displayed at the New Britain Museum of American Art in the 2015 exhibition Over Life’s Waters: The Coastal Collection of Charles and Irene Hamm. Each work in the collection has been handpicked by Charles and Irene Hamm. When forming their coastal art collection, the couple decided they would collect works by American painters, alive or dead, in any medium, of any time, which attracted their eyes and emotions. Unlike most collectors who decide to focus on specific periods or styles, the Hamms have embraced painters working from the early 19th century right through to the present day in an exceptionally wide variety of media and manners.

 

To state that the Hamms have been passionate about the sea would be both accurate and revelatory. Charles was born in Brooklyn Heights, a stone’s throw from New York’s East River. Irene’s life as a native Floridian was shaped by her proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the Hamms have sailed along several continents and enjoyed owning a series of both sail and power boats. Their Connecticut residence on the Long Island Sound was designed to display their coastal art collection and maximize their views and feeling of connection to the water.

 

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Fishing Boats, Nova Scotia, Peggy's Cove - 1929

 

Margaret Miller Cooper (American, 1874 - 1965)

 

Margaret Miller Cooper, a talented, well trained, wealthy, and ambitious artist, was born in 1874 in Terryville, Connecticut. She attended Smith College and taught art in the Stamford school system when she was young. She studied art at the National Academy of Design, Pratt, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also studied privately with Henry Snell (1858-1943), Guy Wiggins (1883-1962), Dwight Tryon (1849-1925), Charles Woodbury (1864-1940), and Robert Brackman (1898-1980). Her husband, Elisha Cooper (1869-1947) was, a prominent New Britain businessman who helped found the Fafnir Bearing Company. She often painted the local scenes when accompanying him on business trips or while traveling in Nova Scotia, Palm Beach, Nassau, and the White Mountains in New Hampshire. When at home, she would be driven by her chauffeur to the selected painting site and served lunch.

 

She was a founding member of the Hartford Town and County Club in 1925, often showing in their group shows starting in 1927, with a solo show in November 1940. She showed frequently with the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and endowed a prize for its annual exhibitions. She exhibited regularly with the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and the Lyme Art Association. She also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Academy of Design, the National Association of Women Painters, and the Palm Beach League of Artists,

 

She exhibited two pieces in the first Society of Hartford Women Painters show in 1929 titled, “Eight-Mile River” and “”Black Walnut”. The Courant review said: “’Black Walnut’ by Margaret Cooper is one of the best of the landscapes shown”. She continued exhibiting with the society in almost every show from 1929 until the 1950’s.

 

She and her husband were major supporters of the New Britain Museum of American Art where she received a posthumous retrospective exhibition in 1966. She was also included in the NBMAA 2001 show titled “Women Artists of New Britain”.

 

She died in New Britain on May 18, 1965.

 

“She painted for the love of painting, uninterrupted from the age of nine until her death in 1965. Spanning seventy years of consistent and conscientious effort, her painting remains a memorial to her unswerving standards,”

(New Britain Museum of American Art quoted in a pamphlet for a 1985 show at the Lyme Academy.)

 

Her works are in the collections of the NBMAA, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Town and County Club, the Florence Griswold, the Lyme Art Association, Smith College, the Lyman Allyn, Packer Institute, and numerous private collections.

 

Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art

 

Friday, March 21, 2025 — Sunday, July 20, 2025

 

To me the sea is a continual miracle, The fishes that swim—the rocks—the motion of the waves—the ships with men in them, What stranger miracles are there? -Walt Whitman, Miracles (1856)

 

For centuries, the American coastline has served as a wellspring of artistic inspiration and a site of personal enterprise that has helped define the national spirit. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as industrialization, expanding railroad networks, and westward migration dramatically reshaped America’s interior landscape, its coastal regions emerged as vital to the development of commerce, industry, and cultural exchange. Access to the sea offered individuals who invested in small craft an entrepreneurial opportunity. Likewise, bustling port cities drove maritime trade, shipbuilding, and fishing industries, while a growing naval presence underscored the sea’s strategic significance. At the same time, artists were drawn to the shore’s dramatic beauty, dynamic harbors, and poetic spaces of leisure and repose.

 

Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art traces nearly 200 years of artistic engagement with the maritime world. Featuring more than eighty paintings, works on paper, and sculptures from 1830 to today, the exhibition considers the profound influence of coastal environments on American art and culture. Distinct themes examine the emergence of seascapes and emotionally imbued expressions of nature’s power, beauty, and allure, as well as the tradition of maritime art in depictions of historical vessels, events, and locales. Spanning diverse artistic styles and moments in time, Lure of the Sea explores the coast’s relationship to American industry, leisure, literature, and the emergence of artist colonies that coalesced along the shoreline, inspired by the interplay of land and sea.

 

This exhibition is drawn from the collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art and commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Museum’s landmark gift of coastal and marine art by collectors and longstanding supporters, Charles J. and Irene Hamm. Featuring masterworks from their donation alongside other works in the Museum’s distinguished holdings, Lure of the Sea illuminates the American coast as a realm of boundless artistic and human pursuit.

---------------------------

 

For centuries, the coastal landscape has served as a vibrant arena in which American life, industry, and creativity have flourished. Lure of the Sea: Masterworks of American Coastal Art features nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures that explore the profound impact of coastal environments on the nation’s artistic and cultural development, as well as its collective imagination and identity.

 

Lure of the Sea explores broad themes, including the evolution of American “marine” art, from its traditional depictions of historical maritime vessels, events, and locales, to emotionally imbued expressions of nature’s power, beauty, and allure. The exhibition considers the coast’s relationship to industry, leisure, and the emergence of artist colonies that coalesced along the shoreline, inspired by the interplay of land and sea.

 

Spanning 150 years of creative output by leading American artists, including William Bradford, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Frederick Judd Waugh, William Partridge Burpee, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, and N.C. Wyeth, Lure of the Sea offers invaluable insights into American life as it has unfolded along the maritime frontier, inviting viewers to engage deeply with the artistic legacy shaped by the sea.

 

This exhibition is drawn exclusively from the NBMAA’s collection and commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Museum’s landmark gift of coastal and marine art by collectors and longstanding supporters, Charles J. and Irene Hamm.

 

For over four decades, Charles and Irene Hamm dedicated their time and resources to developing a renowned art collection focused on American coastal art. The Hamms’ labor of love was last displayed at the New Britain Museum of American Art in the 2015 exhibition Over Life’s Waters: The Coastal Collection of Charles and Irene Hamm. Each work in the collection has been handpicked by Charles and Irene Hamm. When forming their coastal art collection, the couple decided they would collect works by American painters, alive or dead, in any medium, of any time, which attracted their eyes and emotions. Unlike most collectors who decide to focus on specific periods or styles, the Hamms have embraced painters working from the early 19th century right through to the present day in an exceptionally wide variety of media and manners.

 

To state that the Hamms have been passionate about the sea would be both accurate and revelatory. Charles was born in Brooklyn Heights, a stone’s throw from New York’s East River. Irene’s life as a native Floridian was shaped by her proximity to the Atlantic Ocean. Together, the Hamms have sailed along several continents and enjoyed owning a series of both sail and power boats. Their Connecticut residence on the Long Island Sound was designed to display their coastal art collection and maximize their views and feeling of connection to the water.

 

artdaily.com/news/180280/NBMAA-Presents--Lure-of-the-Sea-...

 

www.seegreatart.art/masterworks-of-american-coastal-art/

 

www.newbritainherald.com/news/nbmaa-to-present-masterwork...