Women pushing for safer night shifts

By JENNIFER STEWART, TheChronicleHerald.ca

With every signature they get, Sarah and Margaret Densmore feel they’re that much closer to making Nova Scotia a safer place to work.

The Dartmouth women were out again Tuesday lobbying for higher labour standards that, among other things, would require employers to have a minimum of two workers on every shift.

“We don’t walk alone at night, we lock our doors, we carry cellphones and we don’t go into areas we don’t know,” Sarah Densmore said during a break from handing out pamphlets and collecting signatures for their petition.

“We safeguard ourselves on a day-to-day basis subconsciously, so let’s carry over those practices into the workplace.”

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