Nursing home workers on strike

WINNIPEG – Workers at a local nursing home, the Vista Park Lodge, went on strike on Saturday.

Employees of the personal care home are in a labour dispute with their employer, Extendicare. Employees voted last Monday 100 per cent in favour of rejecting Extendicare’s final offer and to go forward with the strike.

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Under the Essential Services Act, a law that requires certain health-care employees to work through strikes, the workers are still providing care to people in the home but are picketing before and after their shifts.

The care-home worker,s who are a part of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW 832), have said they earn much less than other personal-care-home employees in both the public and private sector.

The employees have been without a collective agreement since March 31, 2012.