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.
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.
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