Rural health staff ratify contract
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This article was published 22/08/2022 (1280 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Six-thousand health support staff who work for two rural health authorities have ratified new collective agreements their union has called “groundbreaking.”
Kyle Ross, president of the Manitoba Government and General Employees’ Union, said Monday workers at Interlake Eastern and Prairie Mountain health authorities had accepted a deal that includes a total wage increase of 9.6 per cent over seven years and increases to premiums and benefits.
“These health support workers are the ones providing vital hands-on care for the ill and elderly in Manitoba, day-in and day-out, and they’ve been without a current contract for far too long,” he said in a statement.
The tentative deal for staff in personal care homes, hospitals, and in the community, was reached last month; they’d been working under expired contracts for years.
MGEU said bargaining had been delayed by health care restructuring, wage freeze legislation, and COVID-19.
“Throughout this time, health care support workers have worked tirelessly on behalf of the patients and clients they serve… (They) have literally kept our health care system afloat,” said Ross.
Each member will receive a $500 signing bonus.
The union says the Community Support agreement has “groundbreaking provisions for home care workers, including paid rest periods, evening and night premiums, maternity leave top-up, and a long service pay step, along with a commitment to further talks about the expansion of sick leave, health care benefits and pensions.”
The agreements date back to 2017 and expire in 2024.
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