Halifax mental health facility closing, no clear plan for relocation says union. (General).

HALIFAX -- The Nova Scotia government is closing adult residential facilities without a clear plan for where mental health clients and the workers who care for them are going to end up, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has charged.

With the scheduled closing of the Halifax County Regional Rehabilitation Centre, the union is trying to negotiate a new contract that will indicate how and who ends up working at a new facility. Neither location or timing for the new facility have been established. HCRRC residents and workers are moving to a temporary facility.

The temporary facility will only have about 15 beds and that means some of the 86 mental health workers will lose their jobs - on top of the 44 already lost through downsizing, said CUPE National Representative Linda Thurston-Neeley.

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